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Gosh, it feels as if we have always known one another. After seven and a half years of togetherness, that isn't entirely unexpected, of course, but we often have to remind one another that we did not go to |
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Sometimes we say that we feel like appendages of one another. Can't explicate the image much more than that, except to say that we often seem to think and feel from a unified center. Being together these past seven + years has been to attach one inner universe to another and nearly double the inner space we have to explore together. Put another way, we see the same ideas, situations, and realities as two people might regard the same statue, though from slightly different angles. Describing to one another the differences in shadow, in texture, in feeling we perceive in life has made our joint experience indescribably richer.
How did we get here? To this point? It began in a shtetle in Berdichev, Ukraine...
Jeannie's grandmother, the late Sadelle, was the youngest child of Nathan and Esther Belilovsky, and was the second child in the family to be born in the United States--Chicago to be exact. At the age of 24, she married Charles Rosenfeldt, who several years earlier, had changed his name to "Lang."
Charlie and Sadelle Lang on Lake Michigan, atop the peddle boat that Charlie invented (before peddle boats as we know them were invented!)
Charlie Rosenfeldt was born in Romania and moved to Chicago with his family. He was a mischevieous child who often ' provoked beatings, at school by the teachers, at Hebrew school by the rabbi, and at home by his parents (who had received notes from his teachers and rabbi). At age 12, Jeannie's grandfather Charlie decided that he had had enough and got on a train to California, where he lived and worked on the railroads until he returned home at 21 years of age. During this time, he joined a fraternal organization, and needing to make his name less obviously Jewish, changed it to "Lang." Charles Lang was an inventor and a metal-working artist. He died the day after Jeannie was born in 1978, with the knowledge that he had a healthy grandaughter in New York. Jeannie loves to wear jewlery that he made.
Jeannie's dad, Norton, is a physicist at IBM labs who fell in love with a pre-medical student, Enid Asher, when he found her in a science library, struggling through introductory physics.
On Eugenie's mother's side, both grandparents are descended from German Jewry in the United States for many generations (though not nearly as many as Brian's). Eugenie's grandmother Inez was born in Des Moines, Iowa and moved to California to attend UCLA. A comedy writer, Inez wrote for Amos 'n' Andy on the radio and later on t.v., for Edgar Bergan and his puppet friend, Charlie McCarthy, and for Lassie. Eugenie's grandfather, Alvin, was an entertainment lawyer with MGM. Like Inez, and her mother, Edna, and her mother, Hattie, Eugenie's mother, Enid, was an only child.
Jeannie has one brother, Aaron, who thoroughly enjoys life, and is currently kicking up dust in his first year at Duke Law School.
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