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My letter,” Bella said in Yiddish that was a bit garbled, but perfectly understandable. “I want my letter back and she won’t give it to me. Why doesn’t she understand my English?”
“That’s Yiddish you’re speaking,” Yetta said.
“No, it’s not,” Bella said irritably. “It’s the English I learned in the factory.”
“It’s Yiddish! You must have learned Yiddish because there were so many of us Jews in the factory. Listen”—Yetta switched languages—“English sounds like this.”
Bella stared up at Yetta, h
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― Uprising
― Uprising
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It seems obvious now: the child who spends school days in a fog of semi-comprehension has no way to know her problem is not that she is slow-witted.
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― My Beloved World
― My Beloved World
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