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.
Barry Rachin
Born 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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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