“Naked I come from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart.”
--Job, 1:21
Chapter 3
My mother was born in 1929, in Brooklyn, N.Y. As a little girl, she liked “Julie,” then as an adult, “Judy,” then, after she got her Master’s in Gerontology decades later, “Julia.” Her mother, Muriel Rothner, was a second-generation Romanian Jew, daughter of …
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