Now. in addition to our names. patronymics. and last names. we bore another proud designation"refuseniks." And there was so much we had to know how to do in order to carry this title honorably through long. excruciating years. To begin with. we had to learn to live on no income whatsoeverto live without money. For. no sooner had my mother and I requested certificates for application for emigration at our places of work. certificates in which our "malevolent intention" to emigrate to Israel was to be explicitly mentioned than we both were fired. Neither her 25year experience nor the health she had sacrificed for her work helped my mother. while I did not in the least benefit from the fact that the secretarial position I occupied in a Society for the Blind publishing house was more than merely modest and unplesant. and finding nonJews who wouild be interested in it was not that easy. For halfayear after our refusal we practically starved.
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