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 On 2/21/14, cecile justine Berecz
> Hi Lynn
>
> Well, thank you for the offer...I am actually a French born from an English
> mother and a hungarian father
> I lived in Israel for 32 years and then I went to live in Congo....I fell
> in love with Africa...How could you not..It is a fascinating continent and
> I learned a great deal there...
> While I was there, I fell upon this beautiful portrait of a mulati and
> choose it as a cameo...and it kept staying there even after I left Africa.
> Got very sick from Malaria and then, met my BF....we went to live in
> Brussels together....oh btw; he is neither Jewish nor african, he is half
> french half vienamese...It is a pitty we cannot have a child together !
> let's hear from you Lynn now ...
        Hi, C
I am intrigued...I indicated I had found your page of pictures and
when I saw you I thought how much you resemble my deceased Aunt. My
great-grandparents and my mother's father  were all Austro-Hungarian
Jews.  My great-grandmother died at Auschwitz in 1945. My grandfather
had already immigrated here in the early 20's and married my
grandmother, the daughter of German Swiss immigrants, pioneers. I am
half Irish through my father.
I married a Jew who turned out to be schizophrenic. I had a daughter
by him having barely known him and knowing next to nothing about
mental illness. I was only 24; it was 1965-6. He committed suicide a
few years ago.  My daughter is a doctor but has taken up the cause of
bringing the issue of mental illness out of hiding. This has been
difficult for me but I am proud of her work. You can see a couple of
her videos on Youtube. Delaney Ruston (short for Rubenstein). She kept
her bio dad's name. I don't know why. I think she felt guilty that she
couldn't help him.
I have a grand-daughter who is twelve and a grand-son who is fourteen.
I have not yet been to Africa but my teaching career and my private
life have been very Afro-centric. When I started teaching I was
working in San Francisco at a junior high school that drew from a
predominantly black area. I met an African American jazz musician
during that time period and we lived together for five years. We
couldn't get pregnant which was just as well as he was using cocaine a
lot. After that I was teaching English Language Development and I
mainly had Vietnamese immigrant students. They were mostly very bright
and great people.  Then I re-established myself with a mixture of all
the races where I am now teaching regular English literature classes.
I have a brother who married a Chinese woman and so I have a niece and
a nephew who are half Asian. I love racial mixtures. I haven't been to
Africa yet but I have had students from Africa and teacher friends
from Africa and so on. I am very attracted to African people.
I signed up for this class because I want to be more knowledgeable
about history, the United States and other parts of the world. I plan
to travel a lot in the future and I want to really know the place I go
to. BTW I stayed in Bruxelles for one month in 1963. I had a BF who
had been living in Germany and Italy and he connected me with a
Norwegian freighter that let me wash dishes for the 12 passengers.
Both going and coming I had to pay only $25 each way. The BF had met a
woman who said I could stay with her while I would learn more French
at the university there but when I got there she told me she was
moving in with her brother's family to save money. It was good though.
I rented a tiny room with a kitchenette. There was a beautiful view
out the back window of a courtyard. I went to the Alliance Francaise.
Then travelled to Denmark and Sweden and back to Paris and home.
Did the person whose writing you admire respond to your compliment?
I have to do the peer editing now.
Best,
Lynn

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