I Think It's Not Possible to Have That and This, Siss Lovely

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Siss lovely: To slowly lose that is to lose something important. My parents grew up in memphis, tennessee, which they experience much more antisemitis. And certainly america in 20 21 has more frightening things about it for jews than it had when i was younger. It's still a pretty pleasant place to be jewish, America is. But my parents would never, if you asked my parents whether anexematism was a big part of their life, they w so, of course not. That as that stuff attenuates, people are more and more desperate for some identity.

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