Scene 9 Lines

Question 1

I’m writing you in Yiddish to honor our parents.

Answer 1

Bubby, do you need anything?

Question 2

Sala, I thought Blima and I had nobody left.

Answer 2

Sit down, Bubby.

Question 3

Standing room only. Mother, you must be exhausted.

Answer 3

Bubby, do you want some water?

Question 4

My dearest Sala: May you never, never again know suffering.

Answer 4

This is really hard.

Question 5

I’m protecting—

Answer 5

Are we starting this again? Today?

Question 6

You are.

Answer 6

Mom, you’ve always acted like the letters are just yours.

Question 7

What if Bubby wants to see them in the middle of the night?

Answer 7

Mom, they’re not going to open the library in the middle of the night.

Question 8

And Bubby didn’t want the letters anymore. I wish you could understand.

Answer 8

I wish you could both understand.

Question 9

Bubby, what do you think?

Answer 9

Bubby’s too nice to say anything.

Question 10

If you don’t chose which letters to keep, I’m going to do it for you.

Answer 10

That’s not fair, Caroline hasn’t even read them all.

Question 11

Read it and don’t ever forget it.

Answer 11

Let us hope, and let us be confident,
That soon we’ll be one with our parents, and with our family.
This is the essence of our prayer.

Question 12

I don’t know what it is, but I’m holding onto it.

Answer 12

Mom?

Question 13

Ann: What?

Answer 13

We can each keep one letter?

Question 14

I see our father again, his voice comes to me day and night.

Answer 14

I read every one of your letters to him ten times. You can’t imagine what they meant to him.