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still get p.i:uples. You have a heart condition

and I di:dn."~!: womt to 'Visit YDu,.'even when You

were dy.1ng.. You once confessed to me that you
went to a whorehouse in the o1d days and I

spent ~ours vainly trying to .imaqj.ne you there.

You have a wife who's afraid to go to the den-

tist, afraid that she'l.1 gag, afraid that some-
htrw someone'sgeing to slip something unko.she:r

into her food and she'11 get sick because of it.
You got dead d.rtmk at D:!Y bar mitzvah and they

had to carry pouout. Aunt Birdie didn't talk

to you fora .lang time after that" and yet at

Cousin Chick's wedding you did the same thing

all over again I t:b:rowi:ng up right on the dance

.floor. Youdon·t know anythingabbut poll tics

and yet you talk like you Ire the hig expert on
it. You do that with everything. When you

were fi.X'ed from your last j Db, you ended up

selling gloves on ast:.reetcorner. You have

contributed absolutely nothing to society and
you ruined Teddy's life.

Yes-Teddy. You never talk about him, but

1 know sameth:i.ngs, :from my g:r:andparents, even
though I've never seen Teddy. That he was...in

all thoseinsti tutions and nothing helped him.
That you used to, dri1il'e him crazy, following him

around everywhere to see that he didn ft get

dirty frca other kids " making "him wear sweaters
in ninety-degree beat, tel ling him 'one thing

and then the other till finally he went crazy
just to get away from you and Aunt Bb:die. So

:now he's out and be's a q:rown man and he' s been
involved with drugs and he was a pimp and he

carried a cane with a sword inside it to pr0-
tect himself £rom his enemi es. Now he lives

in same slum and calls himself a minister of a

new religion and he has a plan to save all the
sinners in this city. Like my grandfather,

your brother-in-law, .says, "It1s a pity an

'leddy. " And it' s a shame on you, Uncle Irving,

j'OUignarant, boastful, cowardly, neurotic,

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