There were times when the idea of parting from his mother filled Aryeh Zelnik withsadnessand shame, but there were other times when he almost looked forward to her decline and to the possibilities that would open up before him when she was taken out of the house.
The little girl whose life was filledwith a sadness she never put into words, and who stopped going to school because the children laughed at the way she walked, was suddenly the head of the family.