Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes

436 Pages·2006·1.93 MB·English

by  T. Cooper

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LIPSHITZ SIX, OR
TWO ANGRY BLONDES
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ALSO BY T COOPER
Some of the Parts
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LIPSHITZ SIX, OR
TWO ANGRY BLONDES
T COOPER
DUTTON
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are
used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons,
living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is
entirely coincidental.
Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes
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Electronic edition: February 2006
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For family.
For Fi.
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Really Old People
Not in the Story
Hannah m. Avi Grodzinski m. Ruth
1885 – 1959 1869 – 1927 1872 – 1903
Leah Grodzinski Ben Lipshitz Shmuel Lipshitz
1891 – 1903 1894 – 1979 1897 – 1918
L I P S H I T Z FA M I LY T R E E
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Esther Grodzinski m. Hersh Lipshitz
1874 – 1942 1872 – 1951
Reuven Lipshitz Charles A. Lindbergh Miriam Lipshitz m. Sam Lazarus
1902 – ? 1902 – 1974 1905 – 1980 1902 –
Morris Cooper m. Anna-Rose Lazarus Jacob Lazarus Aaron Lazarus
1938 – 2002 1941 – 2002 1933 – 1933 1930 – 1991
Sammy Cooper T Cooper Marshall “Eminem” Mathers
1968 – 1972 – 1972 –
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PROLOGUE
1907