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Today, whenever I am tempted to tell the young 'uns about the glory days of yore, it suddenly feels ridiculous and redundant in the shivah this town has always sat for its ever-accumulating ghosts. After my father died a few years ago," he said, "during the shivah (the seven-day period of mourning, filled with services and visitation in the bereaved's home, after the burial of a loved one), I felt that if we had some music, it would make the grieving more bearable. As part of our ethnic foods business, we ship a large volume of shivah baskets to Jewish folks and soul baskets to the black community. |
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