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1968: A necklace from Jerusalem
In 1968, a year after the Six Day War and nine years after my own birth, my parents went to Israel. It was their first visit to the Holy Land. Back home in suburban Virginia, my parents’ two-week absence was, for me, a nightmare, a bleak, lonely, …