
American Pastrol
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Let's remember the energy.
America had won the war.
The depression was over.
Sacrifice was over.
The upsurge of
life was contagious.
We celebrated a moment
of collective inebriation
that we would never know again.
Nothing like it in all
the years that followed
from our childhood
until tonight,
the 45th reunion of
our high school class.
At 30 or 40, a gathering
of my old classmates
would have been
exactly the kind of thing
I'd have kept my nose out of.
But at 62,
as if in the crowd
of half-remembered faces
I'd be closer to the mystery
at the heart of things,
a magic trick
that turned time past
into time present.
The Swede.
Swede Levov.
During the war years, this was a
magical name in our neighborhood.
Of the few
fair-complexioned students
in our predominantly
Jewish public school
none possessed the viking mask
of this blue-eyed
hero, the Swede,
big brother of my
best friend, Jerry,
born into our tribe as
Seymour Irving Levov,
the greatest high school athlete
New Jersey had ever seen.
Watching the Swede,
people could forget
The Swede went off
to the marines in '44
just missing
the end of the fighting
and came home to Dawn Dwyer,
a plumber's daughter
from Elizabeth
who made it all the way
to the miss America pageant
in Atlantic city.
A shiksa.
The Swede had done it.
But before he could marry Dawn,
she had one great test to pass.
She had to meet the old man,
the Swede's father,
Lou Levov, founder and owner
of Newark maid gloves.
He just wants to ask you a
couple of things, that's all.
"That's all"?
Can't you answer for me?
He wants to get to
know you and he's not
an easy guy, but if
you stand your ground...
Oh, Swede.
He'll respect that.
He'll respect you for it.
I'll be right there.
Dawn, let's get
down to brass tacks.
What do you people say
about Jews?
My family doesn't
talk much about Jews.
I don't mean that as an excuse.
We don't talk much
about anything.
But marrying a Jew
isn't a big deal.
Until the issue of
what to raise the kids as.
I would want our child
to be baptized, yes.
Baptized? No.
That's a no.
But...
Baptism, it washes away
original sin.
Without it, if they die,
they go to limbo.
Limbo, I don't know about,
but baptism, I can't allow.
It's important to me,
Mr. Levov.
All of the sacraments
are important.
Like communion, the Eucharist.
What is that?
Well, everybody kneels
and you eat the body of Christ.
I cannot go that far.
I'm sorry.
I have the highest respect, but my
grandchild is not going to eat Jesus.
- I can give you Christmas.
- What about Easter?
Easter?
She wants Easter, Seymour.
What about catechism?
No. Whatever that is.
Now, both of you, we have to
talk about the bar Mitzvah.
Why can't we
just let him decide?
But I don't want a bar Mitzvah.
Then I don't think
we can reach an agreement.
- Dad. -She wants the
child to decide?
Then we won't have a child.
We can marry,
but we won't have children.
Miss Dwyer, you are
as pretty as a picture.
I congratulate you
on how far you've come.
Your parents must be proud.
But I think we should
just shake hands
and everybody go their own way.
I'm not leaving.
I'm not going to go.
And I'm not a picture,
Mr. Levov, I'm myself.
I'm Mary Dawn Dwyer
and I love your son.
I love him.
That's why I'm here.
So, please...
Let's go on.
So, the old man was won over.
In a few years, the Swede took over
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