care of her own elderly mother. She is a real lady.
our family – we often ate dinner at her house. We think that her death may have been caused by a rheumatic heart she had as a child. She was only forty-seven years old when she died. Now Izzy was alone with two teenaged children to raise. His daughter, Myra, was about fifteen and her brother, David, was perhaps eighteen. Many years later Izzy remarried. He met a lady named Edith at a bank he did business with. She had never married but she wasn’t anxious to go out with Izzy. One day he told her he had tickets to a show in New York and she finally consented. She ended up marrying Izzy, who she called Mr. Shooster for a long time – probably because she was much younger than him. They had a very good life together. Izzy had become a multi-millionaire in the real estate business and when he died he left Edith very well off. She took good care of Izzy when he was elderly and sick; now she is taking
THE NEIGHBORS Many of our neighbors belonged to the Wood- crest Country Club. We just couldn’t afford it. So our social life was with couples who didn’t belong to the club. It wasn’t really an inconvenience; we had a wonderful life anyway. There was a huge community swimming pool and it became the summer vacation spot for our family. WOODCREST FRIENDS We made many friends in Woodcrest, especial- ly Selma and Aaron Denenberg who lived across the street; they belonged to the country club but were friendly with both groups. There was a group of about ten couples who got together about once
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