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This is a useless information podcast.

I am Steve Silverman.

Useless information. I thought that I would start today's podcast a little story about my

father's dad. He passed away in 2014 at the age of 108. My grandfather was born Abraham Litvak in Poland and

while he was still very young his father emigrated to United States in search of work.

The plan was that once my great grandfather became established here, he would arrange for my great-grandmother and

my grandfather to come to the United States, but that was never to happen. My great-grandmother

never heard back from her husband, so she left my grandfather in the Kara family

while she made the long trek to the United States in search of my great-grandfather. What she found wasn't good. My great-grandfather

had met another woman and soon my great-grandparents were divorced.

But she still had one really big problem.

My grandfather, he was still back in Poland.

So she asked family members that they could bring my grandfather to United States,

but not a single family member wished to move here.

She did, however, find a family friend who was planning to come to the United States,

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