The summer after my father's heart ...
The summer after my father's heart attack, my great Aunt Elsa decided to pack my sister Alex and me not on to Forest Lake Camp in upstate recent York for a month, in this way our father could convalesce in peace. She had been living with us during the four weeks he was in the hospital, and convinced him that our passions for harmonizing sitcom theme anthems blasting our Billy Joel records, and perpetually asking unanswerable questions, not to mention our hygienic habits - in case he'd forgotten - might not stimulate a speedy recovery. Forest Lake had been attract favor toed to her by Lois Katz, the wife of a
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