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Naomi’s Christmas: Restorative Aloneness And A Childhood Spent In Retail

For the Mommas

I went on buying trips to New York for the fancy ladies wear shop run by one aunt (they used to model the dresses at high end shops), learned the uniform business from another aunt, and was taught the basics of the Borscht Belt hospitality business by a great cousin. After dinner, Dad went off to Schul with his brothers.

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Fall Reading List

Cheap Chica's Guide To Style

Set during WWII era, become enveloped in the story of Anna Kerrigan, Brooklyn Navy Yard’s only female diver, her father Eddie Kerrigan, a union worker and man in the mob, and his boss, Dexter Styles. Langdon and the event’s museum director are on a dangerous journey to unlock the truth. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (Oct).

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