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Your Saturday Jack

Your Saturday Jack

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I arrive at the Hebrew Home at 8.30 to begin the activities for our usual Saturday morning breakfast. I enter my father’s apartment.

“Hi, Dad.”

“Hi, Ba, how are you?”

“Good. Wanna go to breakfast?”

“Absolutely. I was waiting for you.”

He gets up. I notice his shirt is dirty.

“Hey, Dad, that shirt is dirty.”

He looks.

“You’re right,” he says.

“Let me go find you another one.”

“Good idea.”

I do. He changes. We leave the apartment. We see someone in the elevator.

“Hi Jack,” the man says.

“Good morning,” my father says in return.

The elevator opens. We get out.

“Have a good day,” he says to the man.

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