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Rhapsody of Life, Irony, and Human Nature

Marina Rubin

     eighty eight years of steel. war, depression, other war, atomic bomb, vietnam, raising 3 children, her husband’s alzheimer’s. nothing could break her. until her brother’s death. he died with millions. mourners kissed both her cheeks, praised the dearly departed wondering how much money the old bastard left and to whom? she was convinced she would inherit it all, her brother hated everyone and had no children. four feet eight inches tall ninety two pounds, she frequented beauty parlors, shopped for fashionable undergarments in rainbow colors, spent hours on the phone with her son going over her brother’s assets. not even a scream of the blackbird, nor a black cat crossing the street could spoil her stainless destiny, her guaranteed happiness. she waited. her son waited. a mob of grieving relatives waited. in his will her brother bequeathed all his riches to his dead wife’s niece living in tel aviv. the merciless corrupt patriarch didn’t leave his own sister a lilliputian crumb. she was rushed to the hospital with a heart attack, her son followed after with a stroke



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