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The Child Who Remembered Too Much

JL;DR SUMMARY Yaeli, a young girl with the uncanny ability to remember experiences and events from different times in Jewish history, grapples with her extraordinary gift. 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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IdentityFamilyJewish HistoryEducationImaginationMemoryCollective MemoryJewish LessonsReincarnationYaeli

Places mentioned

Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, Israel
"During a group hike near Beit Shemesh, Yaeli stopped at a patch of dry grass and said, Here."
The Kotel, Jerusalem, Israel
"She told them to take Yaeli to the Kotel and let her whisper into the stones."
Israel
"Yaeli insisted her teacher let her recite Hatikvah facing east, because thats how they did it before the microphones."

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