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And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of God? you are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don't know how to handle itDalia Sofer
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Since when are you so 'faithful'? just a couple of years ago you would show up in your tight jeans and borrow our car to pick up one of your five girlfriends. You think that beard makes you a man of God?Dalia Sofer
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New York loves expanse. It grows upward and spreads its tentacles outward, the island spilling into adjoining lands through its many bridges and tunnels. A person given to idleness, as Parvis has come to think of himself, must move about for the sake of moving, if only to fit into the general scheme of things - an electron obeying the current. Tantamount to movement, he has come to realize, is self-reliance, a fact reflected in the language: "Take care, " a friend may say to another as the two part. In his old life the same two friends would have said to one another, khodahfez - "may God protect you.Dalia Sofer