Chapter 4, White Bottom
Despite the unfortunate incident at the army camp, Uncle Rone, Dad's younger brother, always liked taking me places. "You're the only one that is fun to be with," he used to say. I had other cousins on my father's side, you see. Most of them were older than me. Aunt Rosette had three kids, Yvette, Avraham, and Judah. Aunt Fortune had two kids, Haim and Moshe, and one on the way. She was eating a lot to make another one. It really looked that way. She was even bigger than mom when she was eating a lot to bring Avi. My cousins spoke Hebrew and very little Arabic. I was the only one who could speak all three languages well. "You're so smart!" Everyone used to say. I knew that, they didn't have to rub it in all the time. Anyway, Uncle Rone took me to the beach in Ashkelon. Ashkelon was a city on the shore where Samson the hero was active thousands of years ago. There are pretty archeological sites there, but that is a subject for another story. Da...