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We could talk about checkerboard remembered - unknowned limousines and jalopies, school buses nothing else. - vaguely recalled - strange terrain of packed with Yeshiva, Bais Yaakov and We were on the road by 3:00 on Sunday Nashim-Nezikin ... through the hum­ day school students ... mini-vans full of afternoon. Never 1nind traditional lack of bling experience of navigating the final families from surrounding suburbs and punctuality. To this event we could not be tractate in Shas, in Seder Taharos. It was from distant metropolises. late. As we approached the Southern State a road that offered sweeping overviews They flew in from American mid­ Parkway, the traffic beg&n to thicken with of sugyos, both familiar and forgotten, land, from the West Coast, from Cana­ cars all noticably streaming in the same and detours that beckoned the learner to da, from Texas and other Gulf states. direction. 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Some traveled the Internet, oth­ tion Center, in Cleveland Heights High, excitement of anticipation, the eupho­ ers did Dial-a-Daf, and yet others rode Chicago's Northeastern University Com­ ria of achievement, all wrapped with a the LIRR.
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