Passing To Our Children What Our Mothers And Grandmothers Passed On

My grandmother was an Ashken**i Jew. When things were terrible a chance happened and an American Jew played for her in a poker game. He won her and he brought her here hidden with falsified papers and dressed as an American girl. She had to keep her mouth shut and be aloof to the border inspectors, crossed into Switzerland, Italy and then by sea to Spain and then New York. A years journey, she arrived in New York, married, pregnant and 18. 1937.

She was a wonderful woman. She never saw her family again. My grandfather was her family, he was both her father and her husband, 32 years older. They lived well, although my grandfather lost his European business, he was able to rebuild after the war, but never returned to Europe.

I remember my grandmother, when I was a little girl she taught me about being Jewish, and about being a woman. You see grandma had a secret life, she thought women should have pleasure. And she taught me. At ten listening to her talk about giving herself pleasure. And talking about enjoying her body. My mother, her youngest, stood by biting her tongue, in her time she listened to her mother too.

Now, I'm a woman who has pleasured herself for all these years, and I have a daughter who is ten, and her body is crying out to become a woman and it's my turn to tell her how to enjoy her body, both pleasuring herself and getting pleasure in the hands of her lover.

And to tell her the stories of the Jews and of her great grandmother. And about staying horny, it's a gift you don't turn your back on.