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Apparently, the flow of personal information between celia and rivka is in only one direction.

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Władysław Broniewski, Ballads and Romances"

"Listen, girl! She's not listening...
It's daylight, it's a town..."
There is no town, not a living creature,
a naked, red-headed Ryfka runs in the ruins,
thirteen-year-old.

Well-fed Germans in a fat tank passed by.
(Run, Ryfka, run!)
"Mama's under the ruins, papa in Majdanek..."
She laughed, turned around, disappeared.

A good old chap from Lubartow passed by:
"Here, Ryfka, a white roll, so that you're healthy..."
She took it, had a bite, her teeth glistened:
"I'll bring it to Mama and to Papa."

A peasant passed by, threw a penny,
a peasant woman passed by, gave her something,
many, many people passed by,
all were stunned that she was naked and red-headed.

And a sorrowful Jesus passed by,
the SS were leading him to die,
they put them both by a hedge,
then took their guns in their hands.

"Listen, Jesus, listen, Ryfka, sie Juden,
for this thorn crown, for that red hair,
for your nakedness, for your guilt,
you both should be dead."

And it sounded Alleluia
in the Galilee,
and they both were turning
into angels,
and then a round of gunfire exploded...

"Listen, girl!...
She's not listening..."

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And yes, my first name really is Rivka. Strange but true.

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Don't feel bad, rivka. When Shlomo registered here and at Pweb, people couldn't believe Shlomo was his real name either. Moose thought he took the name from Enchantment.

Then again, my own sister couldn't believe we were going to call him Shlomo. "You're not really going to call him Shlomo, are you?"

The answer, of course, is, yes we are. And we do.

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Don't you have reddish hair?

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If one stretches the definition of "reddish" a bit, then yeah.

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And a penchant for streaking?

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And yes, my first name really is Rivka. Strange but true.

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Don't feel bad, rivka. When Shlomo registered here and at Pweb, people couldn't believe Shlomo was his real name either.

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I don't feel bad. I'm incredibly amused when this happens. The dichotomy between my daily RL, where my first name is so common that many people know me by both first and middle names together, and the online world, where people think it's made up, strikes me as very funny.

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do you recall meeting Bill? maybe I have zero personal magnetism since Happy Camper doesn't seem to recall me either.

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Haha, Moose.

We can tell them we knew you when...

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I don't feel bad. I'm incredibly amused when this happens. The dichotomy between my daily RL, where my first name is so common that many people know me by both first and middle names together, and the online world, where people think it's made up, strikes me as very funny.

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Yeah, Rivka, Shlomo thinks it's funny, too.

What's even funnier is, a bunch of orthodox Jewish dayschool kids who were visiting Florida made fun of his name, back when he was in elementary school. Meanwhile all the non-Jewish kids at the muncipal sports program thought he had a really cool name.

I really didn't get that...

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Pretty soon people won't believe my real name is Papa Moose, and they'll think I just chose it because of a character in some book....

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I saw that coming, it'll be a way to tell if someone is a newbie or not.

By the way, you must have an unlisted number. I searched the entire "Moose" section of the phone book, but found no Papas.

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