What would you have done?
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As we opened the back gate of our garden towards a wooded area behind our house, we noticed a white tarp bunched on the worn ground.
My husband and I had been taking a little walk around the inside perimeter of our fence, checking its condition and notching up what might need repairing.
Having spotted this discarded tarp and having just read a great psychological, detective story called In The Woods by Tana French,(See Amazon link at the side of this page) our minds were racing.
We speculated aloud about what could be underneath…..
It was a humid Saturday in September when we were invited to the Rabbi for lunch. We had been living in the USA for just 3 weeks, and we and our three young children were still very much in culture shock.
The Rabbi and his wife, a warm, gregarious couple, welcomed us and 6 of their friends -all pillars of the community, to their table.
I sat there, fearing our crawling 8 month old was going to pull something precious off a low surface, and tried to make small talk with the other guests whom I had never met.
That was intimidating enough.
But then the Rabbi announced that to get to know each other, we were going to go round the table describing to the other guests, how we had first met our spouses. At this point, I was horrified and terrified and focused on just one outcome - how I could make a quick exit.......
