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    Heaven's Embroidered Cloths
    Heaven's Embroidered Cloths
    Heaven's Embroidered Cloths
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    Heaven's Embroidered Cloths

    By Barry Rachin

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    On his deathbed, Mary McCarthy’s father sputtered, “You should have married the Jew.” The freckle-faced Irishman had always been a notorious practical jokester, a master of utterly tasteless and moronic one-liners, and never once in his seventy-plus years had the defiant braggart apologized to anyone, admitted a mistake or human frailty.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Rachin
    Release dateJan 25, 2019
    ISBN9780463173176
    Heaven's Embroidered Cloths
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    Barry Rachin

    About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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      Heaven's Embroidered Cloths - Barry Rachin

      Heaven’s Embroidered Cloths

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      Barry Rachin

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      Heaven’s Embroidered Cloths

      On his deathbed, Mary McCarthy’s father sputtered, You should have married the Jew. The freckle-faced Irishman had always been a notorious practical jokester, a master of utterly tasteless and moronic one-liners, and never once in his seventy-plus years had the defiant braggart apologized to anyone, admitted a mistake or human frailty.

      I was dead wrong… you should have married the goddamn Jew, he repeated. His raspy voiced betrayed a note of mild consternation, resentment even, but whether the

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