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Ex-Detroiter draws comfort from authoring memoir
after losing two sons to muscular dystrophy.
SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News
R
osalie Ferrer Kramer has a
special feeling for the fami-
lies that appear on the
Jerry Lewis Muscular
Dystrophy Association Telethon. For
many years, her family was among
them.
Kramer, a former Detroiter who lost
two sons to the disease some 25 years
ago, wants to reach out to people who
experience adversity and let them
know they can overcome the bad
times. She expresses that attitude in
her new book, Dancing in the Dark:
Things My Mother Never Told Me
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"I was very active with the Muscular
Dystrophy Association and appeared a
number of times on the local segments
of the telethon," recalls Kramer, 72,
who has devoted chapters of her book
to the day-to-day struggles faced by
her entire family, including her hus-
band, Melvin, and daughter, Iris
Gilbert of West Bloomfield.
"It was very difficult to go on televi-
sion and talk, but I did it because I
thought it was necessary. I ran the
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Park as long as I lived there: It's a real-
ly sad story that in all these years,
through all these telethons and with
all the money raised, we haven't found
anything to stop this terrible disease."
While coping with muscular dystro-
phy is an important part of her writ-
ing, Kramer's main focus is her rela-
tionship with her late mother — and
the family secrets her mother tried to
keep. She began writing Dancing in
the Dark soon after her mother's
death, when she unexpectedly learned
that she had been excluded from her
mother's trust.
"The trust set my mind remember-
ing," says Kramer, now a California
resident who gave different names to
everybody mentioned in her book and
changed some of the incidents to pro-
tect people's privacy. "The secrets
probably aren't any more terrible than
many secrets in many families, but
what was interesting was how my
mother felt about those things."
Kramer, who graduated from
Detroit's Central High School, studied
art at Wayne State University and
belonged to Temple Beth El while
growing up and Temple Israel after
marrying, eventually searched
out the truth about her family.
The book describes how she
learned the identity of the man
thought to be her brother,
about the plight of a mentally
ill uncle and the pain of her
mother's first marriage to an
abusive husband.
Kramer did not emphasize
the Jewish aspects of her life
although she did describe her
Jewish background and celebra-
tions. "[The incidents] just
happened to have happened to
Jewish people who lived in a
Jewish neighborhood," she says.
But she will get into her
Jewish background when she
speaks Dec. 10 at the Temple
Israel Sisterhood Chanukah
Luncheon, where she will also
sign copies of her book. Before
then, it will be available
through Barnes & Noble and
at the Jewish Book Fair in
November.
"The book is full of familiar