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Softcover. Condition: new. Product Description This is not a book of jokes It is Rosetta Schwartzs story of how humor shaped her long life and does include several funny experiences It also demonstrates how humor got her and her family through some very rough patches Born in 1909 Rosetta was the youngest of a family of ten children They didnt have much money but the riches of their zany antics and laughter overflowed into the neighborhood That love of laughter continued throughout her long life One of her fondest childhood memories was when neighbors knocked at their door saying Can we come in and laugh with youRosetta Schwartz later Rosetta Shifrin and finally Rosetta Lachman wrote this memoir in 1989 when she was 80 years old Her daughter author Morgan St James uncovered it and edited it in 2012 adding her own comments and those from some family members as Part II along with a reprint of Shopping For Dancing Shoes Morgans short story about Rosetta that is the first story in Chicken Soup for the Shoppers Soul She was a shining lightan inspiration to all Her smile never dimmed as seen on the cover photo taken by her grandson Jason Pransky when Rosetta was 95 years old She passed away in 2006 just before her 97th birthday We invite you to come on in and laugh with herFROM THE BOOKEdna was only four years older than me but she took care of me like a little mother Her wonderful sense of humor added to the feeling that living in our family was like being in a full time vaudeville show There was something going on all the time and quite often she was the instigatorWe were the only family members to go to high school The others were lucky if they got to stay in school till the eighth grade Most of my brothers only made it to the sixth grade As we grew older she changed roles from little mother to best friend Edna and I were as close as two peas in a pod our entire lives She was a very smart independent person and her personality sparkled I loved being with her because she made me feel more confident about what I could doMy brother Charlies biggest ambition was to be a drummer He had begun to take lessons and would practice on his board or anything else that had a hard surface and was handywalls floors sinksyou name it and Charlie drummed on it He usually started his drumming in the living room but it was very noisy My mother chased him from the living room to the dining room and from the dining room to the kitchen Finally he wound up on the back porch Poor Charlie just couldnt win As he drummed on the porch the neighbors complained about the noise and from the porch he went to the basement But Charlie never gave up kept practicing and finally did become a drummerFrom the time my brother Meyer was in his late teens all the way to his early twenties his only desire was to be was an actor We were living on Ogden Avenue at that time and there was a huge mirror built into the living room wall that went all the way from the floor to the ceiling Meyer bought a makeup kit and every day he stood in front of that big mirror trying out a different kind of makeup and practicing lines One of my vivid childhood memories is that I never knew what my brother would look like because he tried so many different faces About the Author Rosetta Lachman was born in 1909 as the youngest child in a zany family of tentwo sisters and seven brother Her parents emigrated to the United States from Latvia and all of the children were born in Chicago They didnt have much money but they had a wealth of humor In 1989 at the age of 80 Rosetta committed her memoir to handwritten notes Now you can share her hilarious account of a family that had so much fun the neighbors begged to come in and laugh with them It wasnt all fun however and you get the full sense of this woman whose greatest talent was inspiring confidence and selfworth in others She was one of a kind Rosetta died in 2006 just.