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    Harry: A Ghost Story

    by Sadie Stein Aug 25, 2017 2 minutes

    “Your father,” says my husband. “Your father might be the least-likely-to-see-a-ghost person I’ve ever met.” This is true. By his own admission, Papa doesn’t do whimsy.

    He likes lots of people, but he is most comfortable around people like himself—which is to say, irreligious Jews, ideally from the New York metro area, from progressive, but now that I think about it, I’d say a better description of his relationship to the divine is . 

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