Adina finally began to wind down her rant with, “So Michael dumped me for an Israeli girl. Maybe they’ll move off to the Promised Land together. Now that it’s out, I’ll never make branch manager. You can see it in the way the higher ups look at me. It’s like they’re punishing me for not being Jewish enough.”
The shade of her ancestor nodded and stroked his long beard.
“Yes, the life of a heretic is hard.”
“Did they mistreat you like this when you were alive, Eliyahu?”
“No, no.” The shade shook his head. “They flayed me and set me on fire in the town square, but nothing this bad, bubala.”
I love you, sir. Comic genius.
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