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Although Sammie Cornfield, (also called ‘Cornie’) was over sixty she acted like a teenager. She went every where with wide eyed excitement. She was friendly and happy. She attracted people to her side. She joined a religious congregation, and participated in all their functions. One of them helped her get a little job. Her life was full and happy. It was only when she looked at the calendar, to check a date, she realized it was Jake’s Birthday. It was his birth day but she thought of that email. She recalled sitting at her desk, looking at the screen. She had not kept a copy of the email. It was gone down into the cyber sewer along with her account. The words didn't matter. The Sentiment was all she needed to recall. That email was the opening of a cell door. “Thank You!” she announced in her little apartment, looking up and out …show more content…

She no longer lived at that address. She kept no links with anyone from that city. She had no contact with whomever or whatever Mrs. S. Levy was or had been. She was Ms. Cornfield. She was happy. She had no regrets. When people asked her about her past she’d crinkle her nose; “Oh let’s not go back, let’s go forward!” and smile. Sami went on day by day, year by year, sinking her roots deeper. She refused to think of anything that happened before the plane landed in this city. Nothing back there, nothing in a 'Levy’ life mattered. Everything was here. This was ‘her’ supermarket, ‘her’ pharmacy, ‘her’ gas station, ‘her’ beach... as if she’d been connected for half a century. She had, shortly after arriving here gone to a beauty parlor and had her hair cut, dyed and styled to change her appearance. And her life. She woke early... she who once thought 9 am was dawn. She would exercise, then go to where she was to be. She’d spend her day, then come home, perhaps to go out again, perhaps to have visitors, perhaps to clean, and was almost always in bed before 10

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