<![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> "I'll have a cream cheese sandwich and a glass of milk, please." I loved these books, and just reread the series not too long ago.

LaBing

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> My knowledge of Judaism came from this book, at least until I moved to New Jersey. I totally wanted to be Jewish as a result (probably due to the food descriptions--anyone else remember the hard-boiled eggs dipped in salt water?), although I'm sure my Catholic mother's fetishization of "The Chosen People" helped that along.

RabbitRabbit

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Weird, I was just this week thinking about the tea-staining trick and couldn't for the life of me remember what childhood book it came from. Apart from that and the button ploy I don't recall anything about this book. But maybe it explains why shiksa me has always gone for Jews....

Psych-o-gal

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @reebchan: I totally did dress up in my older brother's clothes for Purim. The pictures were very cute. My best friend dressed up as a cat, so I was a boy and she was my cat.

Dashrashi

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Oh, lordy! I LOVED these books when I was a kid even though I was raised in the suburbs, far, far from NYC and didn't know a single jewish person. Yet I loved these books. Now, who here remembers reading Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle?

lucydog33

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Seriously, as shiksa from Boston most of my knowledge about the Jewish religion came from these books.

I know Purim is kinda like Halloween.

The entire Sabbath preparations.

What a Bris is (and how it can be confused with a Pigeon)

And you're right about the food. The spicy chick peas in the paper conet. And I especially remember when they counted the floors wrong and ate Uncle Hyman's neighbor's dinner.

I bought this entire set of these books for my daughter but think I will read them again myself.

likebitchisabadthing

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> One word: ECRU

But you know how boys are, Ella? Jules will think it's a new dress.

Ah memories...

Dollfase

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @scribbles: i think those were the "shoes" books -- acting shoes, ballet shoes, etc etc. loved them, but not like i love all-of-a-kind family.

note to jezebel staff: PLEASE do "betsy-tacy" next!

minou

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> all of a kind family were my favorite books for all of elementary school! no one else had ever heard of them, but I LOVED them!

Florence

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> s/mine/mind, durr

Cattitude

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> This probably isn't the same as the Katie John series, but it did bring to mine a book called "What Katy Did," about the turn-of-the-century Carr family. I LOVED that book and its sequels...

Cattitude

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Okay, here's another one...does anyone remember the Katie John series?

Tissa

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Oops, I missed the first Melendys post! My bad!

Tissa

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I loved all of these books, and still have them...they're falling apart!

Does anyone remember the Melendy children series that began with The Saturdays? That was a great series too!

Tissa

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Yes! This series! I was trying to remember what they were called during Hannukah this year, so this is a perfectly timed post. At least my parents remembered them too, since the last book I couldn't remember the title of no one else had read...

misselle

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> *sigh* I have to dig this out and read it again. The review has brought up so many points I COMPLETELY MISSED as an innocent child.

I love this! Permissible regression. Are you all going to do the "Pawpaw Trees" series?

@PeachesDelux: "when I was a kid, my rabbi used to work a lot with the minister at the AME church down the road. some of my fuzziest memories are of joint services with the two congregations."

That must have been a kickbutt service. I'm AME - do you think we can arrange to do that again? We can have the best food ever.

Rooo sez BISH PLZ

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Oh! yes! as mentioned above, Edward Eager's books, particularly Half Magic, withstand the adult re-read without losing one scintilla of their luster!

satori

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> As the only Jewish family growing up in Old Greenwich, CT in the early 70s, my Mom thought it wise to buy me the entire series. My main memory is of Ella and how badly I wanted her to "get with" Jules (was that his name?) I also remember a chapter in one of the later books in which the son is almost hit in the road by a streetcar(?) only to be rescued by a female stranger. The family invites her to the house and one of the younger sisters whispers, "she's fat," and an older sister whispers back, "she's not fat, she's just sort of roley-poley." I'm sure I'm paraphrasing (I was only around 7 at the time) but those books were a big hit in my house, along with the entire Little House series. What IS it about stories of housework and domesticity that was comforting to girls of my era???

Algren

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @GinaRomantica: Oh yeah! She borrowed it for a party because her blue one had a rip in the armpit, and she didn't want to fix it, and spilled tea on it at a party so they tea-dyed it and it came out beautifully.

The moral I got from this is that if you cover up a misdeed well enough, you skate.

julienne

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Ah, goodness. For some reason, even though I'm male and raised Roman Catholic, I adored these books as a kid (and still own a few of them). Fabulous stuff, like reading Eleanor Estes.

JosephFinn

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Speaking of characters attempting to make a go of it in show business, did anyone else read the Gemma books by Noel Streatfield?

scribbles

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I CANNOT wait for your "Cheaper by the Dozen" write up, as I remember all of those references and so many more. Also, I would love a review of "The Four Story Mistake." I was just thinking about that book the other day -- the part where the older boy, I can't remember his name, gets up early in the morning and has freshly caught trout and black coffee down by the river.
Sadly I did not read the "All-of-a-Kind Family" books as a child, but they sound delightful.


scribbles

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I nearly jumped up and down when a woman bought this book today, because I loved this series so much. I wanted sisters who could all dress identically to me! I also wanted to dress up in my brother's clothes for Purim, like Ella did in her father's/cousin's? clothes, but my mother wouldn't let me. Le sigh.

I vote for Edward Eager's Half Magic! Maybe some Lloyd Alexander? The Chronicles of Prydain were wonderful...

reebchan

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Rats. First post a no-show.

NYCEditor

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @Seeräuber Jenny: Oooh! Oooh! I'll write about The Saturdays! And The Four-Story Mistake, too.

yidvicious

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> What a terrific book! Through some quirk of memory, I think of the hidden buttons every time I dust. I remember that Mama wasn't worried about the girls staying awake in bed, saying that they were resting even if they were awake.

Gin&Yonic

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @dashrashi: The food...oh, the food! Sydney Taylor made it all sound positively ambrosial. And I was so jealous of my Jewish friends! (Come to think of it, I was also jealous of my Catholic friends--all of my friends' moms cooked better than my own.)

I still have the four books that comprise the series; they're still available on Amazon.

(I hope someone here eventually covers the Edward Eager books.)

undone

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @Seeräuber Jenny: when I was a kid, my rabbi used to work a lot with the minister at the AME church down the road. some of my fuzziest memories are of joint services with the two congregations.

(actually, my whole town was enormously anti-semetic, to the point where I actually Learned In Public School That Jews Were Going To Hell, and the AME was pretty much the only group to reach out at all.)

PeachesDelux

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Oh, Lord. I think I remember every single mention of food in this book. When Sarah won't eat her soup? When they go shopping for Shabbos and Henny gets a pickle, Ella gets a sweet potato (I think), and Sarah gets hot chick peas in a cone? When Charlotte and Gertie buy crackers and chocolate babies and eat them in bed--very, very slowly?
I think I remember actual syntax from this book as well. "Less than half a penny I don't sell." (Re: C&G asking for a quarter penny's worth of candy.)
I think the reason I was so into these books was because my mom desperately loved them when she was little, on account of being Jewish and growing up in South Philly in the early '60s.

Dashrashi

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> YES! The Saturdays! I loved the Melendys!

WannaGetMatzoBalled

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I loved this book.

amy1971

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @TruculentandUnreliable: Or living anywhere west of New York? I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn like a fanatic, and plenty of Chaim Potok, but this book is news to me too.

meaverly (rhymes with "beverly")

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @lolainblackglasses: i went there last time i was in ny too. it was awesome, despite the old lady in my tour group who went on a rant about the chinese people who refuse to learn english. i tell everyone who is traveling to nyc that they have to go and see it.

cocoesq

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Oh, how I adored the All-of-a-Kind books; they made me want to visit the Lower East Side so badly (it was just over the bridge, after all). Eventually, I moved there. Now I'm here and the neighborhood is gone. I guess I'm going to have to travel via Alibris to visit. I believe I got the first of the series through the Scholastic Book Club, a cherished program in the NYC public school system.

NYCEditor

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> ...whoa. I saw the title of this go-round and went "hmm, haven't read this one," but persevered anyway because (I can always use recommendations for more comfort reading) I was curious, and then got to the hiding-buttons bit and THE ENTIRE BOOK CAME FLOODING BACK.

Seriously, no idea why I apparently had repressed my reading of this book (maybe it was the filler entertainment between bouts of devil-worshipping sexual abuse at my satanic daycare?), but that was totally awesome!

Snaffles

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> For you NYC-ers (or visitors), I went to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum last time I was in NYC and LOVED IT. My local friends had never heard of it, I just saw it on a map and went. It's on Orchard, near Broome. It's a tenement that has been restored to how it was during the immigration boom, in part by consulting with descendants of those who grew up there. Have to go through with a guide. Really educational and inspirational, imho.

Rebecca, in China

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I loaded up my iPod with some holiday songs and I cannot get Maoz Tzur out of my head.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> My first post seems to have gotten lost in cyberspace.

A wonderful series.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I don't have time to read this long post now, but will return to it later. But I wanted to say that I, too, adored that series and recently looked it up on the web.

Like Topsy above, I was another little black girl who thought, in part because of that series, that it would be really cool to be Jewish. Although I grew up in New York and had a lot of contact with Jews, I learned a lot about Judaism from those books. Actually, I was always a sucker for early 20th century New York immigrant stories.

It always pains me to hear African Americans referred to as a group as anti-semites because that certainly was never the case in my family or anyone I knew well. But unfortunately I've now had enough encounters with racist Jews that the overwhelmingly warm feelings I used to have are somewhat tempered.

A suggestion for your feature: The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright. Remember when Mona got her hair cut?

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @Anibundel: YES! My parents were not terribly religious, which is fine, except they raised me & my sisters out in Evangelical Land. This was my only religious education--well that and "Conversations with Rabbi Small," by Harry Kemelman. Yowza.

Chryss

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I had a massive crush on Jules...how sad was it when he went to fight in the war?

blanchedevareaux

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> So funny to think about these books now, as an adult! I LOVED this family. I read these books over and over. (as I did with every book I loved in childhood!) I am not Jewish, so everything I know, I learned from books. This family fascinated me.

Tamberstone

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Lizzie Skurnick, you're right on the money! This whole series was so wonderful, but it's funny as hell to read them as an adult! I highly recommmend it-- especially for scenes like Sarah getting her ears pierced (a piece of string? Ech), or one of the little girls eating a pickle right out of the barrel (still wanna do that!)

blanchedevareaux

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @ CHRYSS
This is totally a series. I read them all. It made me want to become a practicing Jew (my mother was born Jewish, but she was a confirmed atheist by the time I was born.) Everything I knew as a kid about the Jewish faith came from reading these books. :-)

anibundel

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @TheUptightMidwesterner: I grew up in Kansas, so that could explain it.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> This was the only book in my school library that mentioned Jews, as, naturally, someone wanted The Diary of Anne Frank banned. As the only Jewish kid in the tri-county area, I latched on to this series of books (it is a series, right? And I just didn't write endless fanfic?) with a tight little grip that didn't let up until high school.

Chryss

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Oh, the button game! And I always wanted to sleep on a fire escape! Still do!

KillMeNow

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I don't know this book, either. I am thinking it might have to do with growing up in Minnesota.

TheUptightMidwesterner

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I never realised Henny was a lesbian. I always figured she was turn-of-the-century ADHD. Now I want to go back and re-read.

I remember the later books better, the one with the Italian boy Guido, the one with the neighbor who's food they eat (and becomes a re-occuring character) and the last one, where Ella makes a go at show business, only to discover she doesn't have the stomach to be a "modern" chorus-line dancer.

anibundel

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> My father took me to the library every week when I was little (I started reading when I was three) and it was one of my favourite things. One book that made a huge impression on me was the first All-Of-a-Kind-Family book. I loved the story and really identified with the family because we had just my little brother and my father was really happy (my mother had decided that three kids were enough and told my dad that if he didn't get a boy he was out of luck). I never thought there was anything wrong with Daddy wanting a boy; I thought it was only fair to even the odds a bit. Anyway, I don't think I knew any Jewish people when I was little so this book meant so much because I discovered a culture that was so different from mine (little black girl living in Kennsington, surrounded by my West Indian family) but was still so familiar. I wanted to light Sabbath candles. And I wanted to eat a pickle from a barrel!!! I feel so sorry for kids today. They have all this technology but we had STORIES.

topsy

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Can we also talk about the moustache cup the girls bought for Pa? And the paper cone full of spiced peas? And the kugel? I still think about Uncle Hyman whenever I toast myself some rye bread and spread it thickly with...uh, margarine.

Oy, this is bringing back so many memories, y'all. I feel a trip to Alibris coming on.

yidvicious

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I never read these books, but they sound fantastic. I'll have to check them out! (Maybe even assign one of them in my class one day)

the historian

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> OMG! I forgot about this book and immediately remembered all the food scenes. The salmon skin was exactly first.

elitza

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> @TruculentandUnreliable: me either :(

lolkate

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> It was tea that changed the color of the dress. Didn't Charlotte or Sarah borrow it, spill something on it, and decide to dye the whole thing in tea to cover up the stain? (It's always the middle sister who gets into these scrapes, isn't it?)

GinaRomantica

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> I don't know this book. At all.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> The dress isn't brown- it's ecru. Died to match the stain. I think that was the first time I ever saw that word. Sigh... Also, reading All of A Kind Family may be the reason I became obsessed with learning yiddish. So, ikh'll vintsch aykh ale a freylikhn silvester (af Yiddish) and let you all work *that* out in the comments.

bas tsioyn

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> You completely forgot the ear piercing scene--one of my favs, and oh, the tea dress, how I loved the fact that she never figured out where the lovely pale brown dress came from.

whatever

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> The dress is light brown because they dyed it in a bathtub full of tea.

My mom thought it would be SO MUCH FUN to do the button thing when my sister and I dusted. She was wrong. It just made it harder to cheat.

cocoesq

]]> <![CDATA[<i>All-Of-A-Kind Family</i>: Where I Would Put Something Yiddish If I Thought You Goyishe Farshtinkiners Would Farshteyn]]> Remember how excited they were when the got STORE BOUGHT COOKIES!!

madamequeen will not let you sleep on the couch

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