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An old friend Eve daughter of Romanian Holocaust survivors family ended up in an Omaha displaced persons camp. Then they moved to Suburban Omaha, joined an Orthodox synagogue raised her to be Beautiful Orthodox Woman. We met at work in New York. She made cholent for crowds every Saturday in her apartment and looked for a husband. One day she met a handsome non Orthodox man in the elevator. Born in Brooklyn liked baseball earned his living as a maître d in a dark hamburger bar, she loved him and he loved her he wasn’t religious she was never going to be less religious she left to marry a man her rabbi knew in Jerusalem. Last week we met for dinner. She wanted to talk about The man in the elevator. She said I love him Still.