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joined the chaverot running our 'supermarket'.          All our four children have their own families now
        Here I worked for 20 years and in 1983 a few of         and are settled in Israel and a lot of baby-sitting
        us got together and set up a sewing workshop. For       for the many blessed grandchildren has gone on
        the next 10 years or so we 'created' clothing from      over the years. Today I participate in chugim for
        tricot and “fouter” and kept the young and old of       pensioners and hope to find volunteer work,
        Habonim in style. Chaverim bought at cost price         which won't involve the need to be my own driver
        and we neither made a profit nor sustained a loss       since I never did learn the art.
        but by 1995-96 we could no longer compete with          Joyce Shimoni wrote this in the late 1990's. She
        the market. Habonim was also beginning to               presently lives at Protea Village, near Tel Mond –
        change and there was no more work for us.
                                                                sadly, "in her own world."




























































                                             Joyce, Cyril and their four children










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