Normal activities included plenty of parties. My Parents' wedding reception, for example, was a well attended event. My maternal Grandfather, Jake, also was a very social person. I sometimes think of him as the "Merry Widower." Already in his late forties by the time he fled Lithuania, Jake remained something of a ladies' man throughout his life.
Seligenstadt, Germany, 1948. A group of DPs parties under a Vytis, the Lithuanian coat of arms, hanging on the wall. (It's important to maintain a sense of national identity.) Jake, third from the right, is in mid-sentence. The tailor, Karl, is on the far right, his chin resting on his hand.
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