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Story happened several years ago in a
basank in America in one of the Yiddish
communities.
There was a girl one day Estie her name
was she was 9 years old. She came home
from lunch for from school after school
and the mother served broccoli
and the girl looked at the broccoli and
she's not eating. She pushed away her
plate. I'm not eating this.
And the mother says why aren't you
eating it? She says, "This is animal
food. This is not for human
consumption."
The mother says, "Listen here, it's
healthy. You eat so much junk and so
much nash. I'm I want you to eat some
healthy food. Broccoli is very healthy."
And the girl says, "I'm not eating it."
So the mother spoke to the father,
"Could you please talk her into eating
it?" The father and the girl said, "No,
I'm not eating it." And the father tried
to convince her. She she said, "Listen,
mommy worked so hard on making the lunch
on the supper. please at least try to
eat it. If you don't like it, I
understand, but try put some in your
mouth. Try to eat it.
And he tried to bribe her with some
nach. And the girl says, "I don't need
no nash. I don't need anything. I'm not
interested. It's animal food." And the
father kept on trying to get the
daughter to to agree. Finally, the
daughter says, "Okay, Ta,
you want me to You're asking me to do
something that's so hard for me. It's
not but it's really not comfortable for
me to say no. So, let's make a deal.
I'm going to do something that's hard
for me and eat this broccoli and you
allow me to do something
that even though it's going to be very
hard for you, you won't ask me why I
want to do it.
And they're thinking, the father's
thinking, what could Estie already want?
She's 9 years old.
What is she thinking?
And the father said, "Okay."
And the girl Estie took the broccoli and
she fought with it for 20 minutes until
she finished the whole thing. And then
she says, "Ta, I did mine. Now I want
you to do yours." And the parents were
very nervous. What is it that she's
going to ask? And and Esther says,
"Don't worry. It's not going to be
expensive. I'm not going to ask you for
something very expensive." He says,
"Okay, what would you like?" She says,
"I would like a lady to come to the
house and give me a haircut and take all
my hair off my head and then give me a
beautiful tickle that I can go to school
tomorrow wearing a tickle."
Her mother almost fainted and began to
cry and she told her husband, "I can't
take it anymore." And she went up to her
room to calm down.
Her father was totally confused and he's
thinking about such a strange illogical
request from his daughter. What does she
want? What is she doing? What? It's not
sensible. Why? Why are you doing this?
But he made up a deal. And for 3 hours
he was thinking back and forth. She got
this mishas into her head. Maybe someone
convinced her to do it. But I promised
I have to keep my word. If I don't keep
my word,
I will lose Estie's trust forever.
That'll never come back. Here, here
grows back. It'll take a couple months.
She'll get back her here. So, the father
went and he picked up the phone and he
called up
the lady that normally comes to give
haircuts. Can you please come to my
house and give my daughter a haircut?
The lady came and totally cut off all
the hair, shaved her head or whatever,
close enough. And the mo in the morning,
the mother could barely look at her
daughter and she tells her husband, "I
I'm not taking her to school. I can't I
just can't." So she says, "Ma, do you
have a tickle for me?" She says, "Yeah,
it's on my on my dresser." Estie went
upstairs and got her tickle and put it
on her head. She looked adorable,
but everybody could tell there's no hair
under that tickle.
The father went and took Esie to school.
And as Estie's getting out of the car,
another car pulls up.
Estie's classmate Khani comes out also
wearing a tickle without any hair.
Estie ran to Kani.
And he she hugged her and screamed,
"Wow, it's amazing that you came."
Father looked at the two girls and he
had no clue what's going on over here.
Khan's mother got out of the car and she
came to him and said, "Are you the
father of the most amazing Malik in the
world who watches over my Khani?
What an incredible daughter you have."
And the mother continues, "You see,
Khani has cancer and she's taking
chemotherapy and all her hair fell out."
And there was some girls in the class
that started making fun of her.
And she came home one day and said, "Not
only is it hard for me that I have the
maka, but I also have to get made fun of
in school that I my hair fell out. I'm
not going back to school anymore."
Your daughter Khani would come every day
with her homework and she would explain
to her what they learned that day and
she would make her feel so good.
and she's begging her to come back to
school and she says, "I'm skit.
Everybody's going to laugh at me."
And yesterday I heard them on the phone
and she says, "You know what? Tonight
I'm going to do something and I promise
you that tomorrow no one's going to ever
laugh at you again, but you have to come
to school. You trust me?" And and she
said, "Yes." Says, "Okay, tomorrow
you're coming to school, right?" She
says, "Yeah, I'm coming to school."
Okay. And with that, Connie's mother
started crying. A regular nine-year-old
girl hears about her appearance and what
her friends think of her. Who would
think that a girl nine years old would
be able to feel Yanim's pain with such
intensity and do something so drastic to
shave off all their hair.
And all the other clids in the class
were in awe and no one ever laughed at
either of them
