![]() What I realize now is that, had my father told me that I couldn’t have the party, I probably wouldn’t remember it 25 years later. I didn’t dance, even when my longtime crush asked me to at the first few notes of my favorite slow song. ![]() I decided to have the party.īut then something strange happened. “But Dad, this party is going to be totally awesome.” When I mentioned this plan to my father, he calmly told me that he didn’t think it was such a great idea.īecause this club, not seeing the particular value in admitting Jews, had turned down our membership 10 years earlier. ![]() Her family belonged to the club down on the beach, and we could have the entire social hall in which to dance to the hits of the early ’80’s: songs that hadn’t yet developed a kitchiness because, well, it was the early ’80’s. ![]() When I was turning eleven, my neighbor, whose birthday fell on the day after mine, suggested that we have a joint party. ![]()
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