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The Most Exciting Moment of Alma’s Life

The Most Exciting Moment of Alma’s Life

A nostalgic story I wrote almost twenty-five years ago. | Fiction | Fresh Soup

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I wrote this text almost thirty years ago, for a comic book spread that the comic artist Rutu Modan and I published in a local Israeli newspaper. It was just after I broke up with my girlfriend. At the time, I had the feeling that now that she was gone, I would never meet an uncaged lion again. Who could have imagined back then that I'd get married and …

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