Word: rosannah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called himself John Brown so that his colleagues would not know that he was Jewish. He still lived with his family in Brooklyn, but he never allowed any of them to come near his office Once, when he was with friends in the restaurant where his sister," Rosannah, worked, John pretended not to recognize...
...Braunowitz, a Russian immigrant, was a grimy, scholarly, embittered man, who had nagged his simple wife into animal dullness and shirked his responsibilities as a father. Strong-willed daughter Deborah had backed up her mother and made herself the "father" of the family-and a Lesbian to boot. Daughter Rosannah had dutifully earned her living by serving in bars-which, to John's tortured, hypersensitive imagination, meant that she dallied with the barflies. Daughter Sarah had fled into the arms of a man she did not love, and her children's doleful life exactly reflected her own despair...
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