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HOME
Grandma's House
all, a windup Victrola with strange
Russian records that sounded even
more strange when the Victrola
needed winding. I spent a lot of time
in that room.
When I tired of talking to "Crazy
Irene," the gentle retarded girl on the
block (it feels terribly insensitive for
me to call her that today, but in those
days there was no understanding of
retardation — especially among
small children and uneducated peo-
ple), I would sing and dance in that
room in front of the tall mirror and
make up songs in my head. I knew
nothing about music and had diffi-
culty writing down the melodies un-
til I devised a system of "up dots and
down dots" which enabled me to
remember what I composed. I tried
to play the piano and spent many
hours thumping away, trying to make
something familiar come out. Some-
times, when cousin Janet came, we
would put on the Okeh "Laughing
Record" and giggle until we wept.
I attended my grandparents' Ortho-
dox synagogue with its stained glass
windows and separate sections for
male and female. I paraded around
with apples and candles painted on
paper flags on Simchat Torah, and
collected the colored tickets (yellow,
blue, pink, designating different
seating sections) discarded as Yom
Kippur drew to a close. When I was
old enough, Uncle Victor presented
me with my own prayer book and
tickets to the High Holy Day services.
When I was about twelve, I began
to rebel against religion and did not
want to go to services anymore. Al-
though I was a Talmud Torah (reli-
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