Start: Well, it was um, getting toward...

Fires in the Mirror

Anonymous Lubavitcher Woman

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Start: Well, it was um, getting toward the end of Shabbas, like around five in the afternoon, and it was summertime and sunset isn’t until about eight, nine o’clock.

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End: And I just sort of stood there looking kind of dumb and then he went and pushed it, and we laughed that he probably thought: And people say Jewish people are really smart and they don’t know how to turn off their radios.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Anna Deavere Smith, Fires in the Mirror, Random House, 1993, pp. 5-8.

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