That's Life 12-19-08

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Issue of Dec. 19, 2008

Dear That’s Life,

I enjoyed your That’s Life story about the two Miriam Wallachs. It brought back memories of a similar situation that happened to me many years ago.

I was fairly new in my family’s new home in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. On the first day of class in the spring semester of my junior year, I struck up a conversation with the student sitting in front of me, whose name was Stan Spector. He informed me that there was another Alan Sussman a year ahead of us and that they were good friends.

It is almost 43 years later, and the “other” Alan Sussman’s old friend is still one of my closest friends. Alan P. Sussman graduated from Tilden H.S. and a year later I did. He graduated from Brooklyn College, followed by me. He started a career in accounting, which I did too.

Several years later I had just started dating my bashert. We were dating only a few weeks when she asked me if there was another Alan Sussman. I replied, “Yes, there is. Why?” It seems she was having a conversation with another young lady who lived in her building who had just become engaged. They were telling each other about one’s fiancé and the other’s new boyfriend when one said “Alan” and the other said “Sussman.” They became slightly suspicious, but I straightened it out for them very quickly.

Ellen and Alan P. Sussman and Laurie and Alan N. Sussman have each been happily married to the right people for over 30 years.

Alan N. Sussman

Beit Shemesh and Cedarhurst

Dear That’s Life,

While sitting around with my teenage kids and some of their friends, we were talking about the latest and greatest of the new cell phones. One friend told us how her Dad gets confused and calls her phone a Blueberry. Another teen added that her Mom thought it was a Burberry, like the designer bags and clothes. We all had a cute chuckle about getting the name straight. “Maybe it’s called a Raspberry?” yelled out a third girl, giddily.

Then, my brilliant seven-year-old, wanting to get in on the teenage conversation, chimed in with her suggestion, “Maybe they should call it a “Li-berry”!

Makes sense to me.

Felicia Bernstein

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