Chapter 37, Jukitta
“Long time ago in a land far, far, away lived a small beetle, ‘ Jukitta ’ was her name.” Dad started to tell us a story. We were all sitting on the floor around him in Aunt Marie’s Back yard. It was one day before Vivi’s Bar-Mitzvah”. Vivi was there with his sister Inez, his brothers Avram and Motke, my cousin Batyah and her baby brother Ofer, My cousin Yudit and her brother Haim, and even Momi Uncle David’s son and his baby brother Ranni. Our eyes were fixed at My dad’s direction listening to his story. I heard this story already before, from Meme Milli yet I always loved it and anyway, Dad was a great storyteller. And now that he had a little wine to drink, he was a little funny too. This was late at night after a very eventful day. We were in Ashkelon, an old city in the southwestern part of the Israeli shore. It dates back to the Philistines. Remember the story of Samson and Delila? Well, it happened there. On the shoreline stretched an archeological park. Many cac...