Everything is Illuminated
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:11:02
That is Father retrieving his fist
from the right side of my face.

:11:06
Father is a first-rate puncher.
:11:09
This is my miniature brother, Igor.
:11:12
I am tutoring him to be a man
of this world.

:11:15
For an example, I exhibited him
a smutty magazine three days yore.

:11:19
Why is it called sixty-nine?
:11:21
I explain it to him that this is
because it was invented in the year 1969.

:11:25
I know this because my friend Grisha knows
a friend of the nephew of the inventor.

:11:29
What did people do before 1969?
:11:35
He is a genius, my miniature brother.
:11:38
He will be made a VIP
if I have a thing to do with it.

:11:43
This is Grandfather. Like my father
and myself, he too is dubbed Alex.

:11:48
My grandmother, Anna, died two years
before of a cancer in her brain.

:11:53
Precluding this,
Grandfather became very melancholy...

:11:56
...and also, he says, blind.
:12:00
His most recent employment
was Heritage Tours...

:12:03
...a business he started in 1950s...
:12:05
...mostly for aiding rich Jewish people
to search for their dead families.

:12:09
It is a strange employment
for Grandfather...

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...as there is nothing he hates more than
rich Jewish people or their dead families.

:12:17
This is Sammy Davis Jr. Jr.
:12:20
She is Grandfather's Seeing Eye bitch.
:12:23
Father purchased her for him not
because he believes Grandfather is blind...

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...but because a Seeing Eye bitch
is also a good thing...

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...for people who pine for
the opposite of loneliness.

:12:36
In truth,
Father did not purchase her at all...

:12:40
...but merely retrieved her
from the home for forgetful dogs.

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Because of this,
she is not a real Seeing Eye bitch...

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...and is also mentally deranged.
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Most of all, she relishes when I sing to her
her most beloved song...

:12:54
..."Billie Jean " by Michael Jackson.

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