“We’re very atypical in everything we’ve done. We’re a team.”

“How so?”

“Well, we’re a mixed-marriage, which wasn’t the thing forty years ago. He converted to Judaism.”

“I converted because I knew my children would be Jewish because my wife’s Jewish. I went to synagogue with them and drove them to and from school. I brought them up Jewish.”

“He was Mr. Mom and I was working at the store I started, then he came to work at the store and we both took care of the kids and worked together. That’s how it worked. We had a store in Dollard-des-Ormeaux and he used to drive back and forth at least four or five times a day to bring special orders.”

“One time she called me — I was on the road — and she said, ‘go to Dollard. Something’s happening; no one’s answering the phone.’ I got there, and I see that the blinds are closed and the door is locked. I thought, ‘what the hell is going on?’ I take my key, open the door, and heard noises in the dressing room. So I go in and I see my sales lady there with her boyfriend!”

“He comes back, white as a sheet, and he says to me, ‘guess what, I’m closing to store in Dollard!’”

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