The Orphan's Tale

When Adolf Althoff received the honor of being named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1995, he said, “We circus people see no difference between races or religions.”

“But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home.”

“And Ruth said, ‘Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.’

He had gotten into my heart when I wasn’t even looking.

“No man is worth the whole world,”

But his lips are tender and sweet with wine. His warm fingers cup my cheek, seeming to lift me from the ground.

“It’s hard when the people we love do awful things,”

But Peter makes love with wild hands and lips where they have never been before and where I least expect them.

We cannot change who we are. Sooner or later we will all have to face ourselves.”

Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think.”