After Long Silence: A Memoir.After Long Silence: A Memoir (Delacorte, 1999). Helen Fremont grew up an orphan orphan: see adoption; foundling hospital; guardian and ward. See widow & orphan. Orphan See also Abandonment. Adverse, Anthony finally, at middle age, discovers origins. [Am. Lit. in her own house, wary and unsure of mysterious parents who seemed to follow a secret set of roles that she and her sister were forever stumbling stumbling an abnormal gait in which the animal does not fully extend the limb, the plantar surface is not properly placed with respect to the ground surface at the time of impact so that the limb is likely to collapse and the animal to fall. over. Practicing Catholics, the family went to Mass each week, but never to Communion or Confession. They ate matzohs at Easter. Long stretches of her mother and father's European past were missing. Only as an adult did Fremont piece together that her parents were Jews Jews [from Judah], traditionally, descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, whose tribe, with that of his half brother Benjamin, made up the kingdom of Judah; historically, members of the worldwide community of adherents to Judaism. , that her own childhood had been lived in the shadow of the Holocaust Holocaust (hŏl`əkôst', hō`lə–), name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. . In a memoir about her attempts to find her "real" parents, Fremont has written a poignant tale about the ways in which the children our parents were shape the adults we become. |
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