ew your cousin sounds like a real prize :(

YO I’M 89 TOO

We really, really do. Get on it, Kinja!

I LOVED anything about France when I was around 10. My mom and dad bought me a book about French for kids and I really wanted to learn the language. I took French in college and it was harder than anticipated...

THIS ONE! The Marie one! http://www.amazon.com/Marie-Invitati…

okay, MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME (and Adrastra and Allie and whoever else is reading)

I’ve forbidden my parents to get rid of the not insubstantial amount of books from my youth that are taking up space in their house.

mannn I liked the original one

It was SO GOOD and I was obsessed with early 20th century immigrant stories and Jewish culture for a really long time because of that and Fiddler on the Roof

OH MY GOD I DO TOO

Yes!! My fave (and I think the first one I got?) was Dreams in the Golden Country, about a Russian Jewish immigrant girl in 1903 NYC

DID YOU READ THE ANASTASIA ONE

AHH YESYESYES I LOVED THESE

I was raised southern baptist (dad’s a deacon, mom’s the organist at church, I don’t really know what I am now), and my boyfriend is Jewish (really just culturally, but he had a Bar Mitzvah and definitely identifies as Jewish, even if he’s an atheist). We plan to get married someday, and we’ve talked about how we want…

This breaks my heart. I can’t imagine what they must be going through. Glad they were able to get out, and I hope their kids have the same enlightenment.

my thoughts exactly

I thought maybe he was of the idea that Love Will Keep Us Together

Rich people, man

like, him if he was really not at all attractive

omg can you imagine