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you done so well."

I blushed, and I know darn well Mamma could tell, even over the
phone. "Aw, Mamma, ain't any big deal, really. Anyone in the family
coulda done it."

"Don't you go selling yourself short, Clint dear. Even Evangeline
knows perfectly well you're the genius in our family, and she's no
dummy herself. Take care, and the whole family will be looking for
you!"

We exchanged kisses over the phone, silly though that sounds,
and I hung up.

"So," Jodi said, coming over, "were those bellows of fury, or was
she happy to hear about it?"

"You could hear her?"

"Oy vey, Clint," she said, smiling. "Thought she'd break your
eardrums with a couple of those."

Jodi was something of an anachronism. Her grandparents were
immigrants who still spoke more Yiddish than English and had
maintained an intimidatingly firm emphasis on the link between the
old and new traditions. Linguistic traditions, anyway, if not religious
ones. Jodi's grandfather had been active in the needle trade
unions, a follower of Max Shachtman's brand of socialism. He had
no use for religions of any kind, but that hadn't stopped him from
maintaining a number of Jewish habits and customs. Jodi's family
was almost a time capsule of clichщs from the '40s and '50s, and
Jodi had inherited enough to sound like a near-parody of the New
York "Jewish American Princess." So why did I find her Yiddish, of
all things, endearing? Especially when spoken with that New York
accent that reminded me of nails on a chalkboard?

Probably just the blindness of love, I had to admit. I'd known Jodi
Goldman for four years, though, so hopefully the blindness (or, in
this case, deafness) would last for many years yet. "She was
ecstatic," I said, answering her question. "I guess I should have
more faith in my family, but they are still, well . . ."

"About as rustic backwoods as you were when you first showed
up?"

I laughed. "Worse, sweetheart. I'd gone through college before
that, remember. First SladeЧ"

"Чthis century, yes, I know, my fave nebbish. You mentioned it a
time or two, probably because your whole family mentions it every