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Orchard Lake Road
In The West Bloomfield Plaza

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547 9669
24695 Coolidge

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At 10 Mile Road

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AWARDED CERTIFICATE BY GIA
IN GRADING & EVALUATION

10/17
1997

72

30400 Telegraph Rd. • Suite 134
Bingham Farms 642-5575

Fine Jewelers

Est. 1919

Lawrence M. Allan, President

Daily 'Til 5:30

Sat. 'Til 3

when you're old enough to know bet-,-,
ach Sunday I spend about an
ter (I am finally, finally learning that
hour at the flea market in Royal
life is too short to get really upset
Oak. My husband is nice
about
much) and when you're young
enough to care for the children while
enough to change (despite my protes-,2
I go wandering about in search of
tations to the contrary, I know I'm real-
treasures: coloring books from the
ly not too old to start an exercise pro-
1940s, a perfume sample or two, a
gram).
You also learn that it's good,
handkerchief embroidered with lilacs,
and right, that someone else will have
my favorite flower.
a turn to be young and happy, even
Outside at the entrance
as your life moves slowly
is a booth where I
toward its end.
always stop. I think the
About five months
owner's name is Irene. I
ago,
when Talya was still
like her very much. She
only weeks old, I took her
gives me a great deal on
for a long walk on
whatever I buy and asks
Shabbat. My children
about my baby Talya,
,
came
along, as did my
whom I used to bring
c
mother who was visiting
with me when she still
from
Kansas City. It was a
Talya, as Ii fe begins
needed to nurse every
warm day, and we spent
half hour.
a
long
time
in the playground, mak-
Irene offers up a hodgepodge of
ing "soup" of leaves and sand and
everything from old magazines to
playing hide-and-go-seek.
yarn. Though my children already
When we left we saw two, elderly
have a zillion books, I usually buy
women
walking around the Jewish
more at Irene's booth. Then on
Center. One had a sign that read, "I
Sunday night we all snuggle in bed
am blind."
and read my finds.
As we approached the women, the
Last week at Irene's booth I bought
one
called to her companion, "Why
a book about a family who discovers
look at that. It's a baby."
a magical spring which gives eternal
"Where?" the blind woman cried.
life. There's a little girl in the story who
"I can't see."
has the opportunity to drink from the
Talya was asleep, but I bent down
spring, but chooses not to. I wonder if
and gently picked her up out of the
I would do the same.
stroller. Holding her close, I brought
By their very existence, my children
her directly under the blind woman's
have taught me much about life.
eyes.
Primary among these is that parental
"It's a girl," I said. "Her name is
love is an astonishing, almost over-
Talya
Devora."
whelming emotion. Trying to define it
"Ahh," the woman said, taking in
is like trying to count drops of water
her
fresh smell.
in a never-ending ocean. As a parent
Her arms still firmly holding her
you know that nothing matters, not
walker,
the woman looked through
really, except your children's well
her blind eyes at Talya. "A little
being.
baby,"
she whispered. And then she
My children also have helped me
leaned over and slowly, softly, kissed
understand my place in time. They
Talya
on the forehead. "Thank you,"
are like little flower seedlings just
she said.
beginning to grow. I'm already in full
And then we went home.
bloom. Others are older, their petals

wilted and faded, their heads bent
over, tired. Altogether we form a gar-
den.
Recognizing your place in life puts
everything in perspective. You know

Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor