Still, despite their circumstances, Morrie was taught to love and to care. And to learn.
Eva would accept nothing less than excellence in school, because she saw education as the only antidote to their poverty.
She herself went to night school to improve her English. Morrie’s love for education was hatched in her arms.
He studied at night, by the lamp at the kitchen table.
And in the mornings he would go to synagogue to say Yizkor—the memorial prayer for the dead—for his mother.
He did this to keep her memory alive. Incredibly, Morrie had been told by his father never to talk about her.
Charlie wanted young David to think Eva was his natural mother.
It was a terrible burden to Morrie. For years, the only evidence Morrie had of his mother was the telegram announcing her death.
He had hidden it the day it arrived. He would keep it the rest of his life.
When Morrie was a teenager, his father took him to a fur factory where he worked.
This was during the Depression. The idea was to get Morrie a job.
He entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the walls had closed in around him.
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