Breakfast at the lake with my parents. They never came to California. Never went anywhere except "over the border". Massachusetts.

Coffee, orange juice, bacon, pancakes, real maple syrup. On the long wooden table with a view out the window through the trees to the lake.

My parents as always so polite. So polite to Sid.

But later. "Dorothy, you do know that it is not always easy to live with someone brought up in a different culture?"

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