MEMOIR

The Courage to Forgive Myself

I can remember the first time he said my Jewish heritage bothered him

© Shari Lopatin, 2021. My eyes.

I can remember the first time he said my Jewish heritage bothered him: it was the night before September 11 — Sept. 10, 2001.

I awoke to smoking towers in more ways than one the following day. We’d been together for a year, and he’d…