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In my Passover memories, the magnolia trees of Brooklyn are always in bloom

JL;DR SUMMARY Fredda Nightingale reflects on her childhood memories of Passover in Brooklyn, where the blooming magnolia trees heralded the arrival of spring and the holiday. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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BrooklynPassoverHoliday PreparationSederFamily TraditionsChildhoodJewish MemoryCommunal RitualsMagnolia TreesSpringtime

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Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Growing up, I lived with my parents in a two-bedroom apartment on the second floor of a three-story apartment building in Borough Park, Brooklyn."
New York City, New York, United States
"the treasured well-worn haggadah from The Home of the Sages of Israel on the Lower East Side"

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