Recap: Dr. Laurent and Bayla go out and Dr. Laurent asks Bayla to marry him.
We didn’t formally announce our engagement, but when I strolled in the door at one a.m., Gloria was waiting for me. “Did you have a good time? You don’t have to answer. Your eyes are shining.”
A 30ish resident of an Orthodox neighborhood of Brooklyn, Hadassah, who is single, usually accompanies her shidduch dates to traditional venues like a hotel lobby, where the couple can nurse a soft drink for a few hours, or a cafe, where they can get to know each other over a cup of coffee.
Recap: Dr. Laurent is in Washington. He came home from the Army because he had pneumonia. President Truman had asked him to come to Washington. A shadchan calls to tell Bayla that Dr. Laurent would like to go out with her. She is confused as she thought he was engaged. She finds out he isn’t.
A good number of questions I receive have to do with weight loss. There’s really no way around tackling nutrition, as that’s the most basic element in our hierarchy, what we consume on a molecular level (see chart).