NARRATOR: As the daughter of Max and Jennie's youngest son, I am obviously quite glad that Georgie was a boy. The ongoing joke has been that Jennie, in her desperation for a girl, dressed him in Scottish-like kilts and kept his hair in long golden locks until his bar-mitzvah. In fact, Georgie turned out to be the tallest and one of the largest of all five.

In reality, to be the mother of five strapping boys placed Jennie permanently in an exalted position. She never felt that something was missing, and was known to have encouraged other women to have as many boys as possible. Poor Max, however, had to wait for his first grandchild to appease his desire for a little girl. He was a ladies' man throughout, who appreciated his future daughters-in-law as much for their very existence as for their various merits.