“Age creeps up on you when you’re not ready for it. When you’re in
good health, I suggest at the end of the book, get around and see what’s
available, get a lot of information, visit institutions and read up on it and
keep it for your children, so when you’re in need of that kind of help they
have that information.”
RIVIAN MARCUS
When they came to the counter for rolls and loaves, her mother
would always sneak a few cookies into their bags.

“I remember her saying, ‘Even when you’re hungry, you wish
you had something sweet to eat,’” Marcus said.

One day, during a visit to a hospital near Wynnewood,
Marcus encountered a weeping man in his mid-30s.

“I said, ‘What can I do for you?’ And he said to me, ‘I just
found out I’m HIV-positive. And I’m a married man. And not
only am I responsible to my wife, but I look aft er my father, too.

What am I going to do?”
She held his hand.

“I said, ‘You must pray and ask God to help you fi nd strength
to face your reality. And there is help for the disease. Seek that
help. Be there for your family,’” she recalled.

She conducted Friday morning services, seders, Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur services while living in Boca Raton,
Florida. She even conducted a seder in the middle of the ocean
while aboard a cruise ship carrying 3,000 passengers.

She recalled that people stuck around aft erward to tell her
how much they had enjoyed it. Th e last man in the room spoke
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...to be continued
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