#chevrusas

The chevrusas are study partners and they’re very, very close. They get each other on a level nobody else does. They spend hours together late into the night. Without each other, they’d be adrift.

Anon’s great-grandmother Babushka Riva grew up in a shtetl outside Vinnytsia. She changed her name on her passport twice and used it to lie about her age. She worked in a liquor store so she learned all the swear words but the only time she swore was when she lost her dentures. She claimed the mice took them, and wouldn’t you know it, she was right. She fed the squirrels in her yard so much that you could tell them apart from other squirrels because they were so fat. She probably had an affair but nobody knows with whom and nobody will ever know. When she died, she had “well, that’s that” written on her gravestone.

Shretlech are little elves; like house brownies. They are not harmless, but they mean no harm. They can be silly but they can also be capricious.

4. Babushka Riva vs. And They Were Chevrusas WINNER: BABUSHKA RIVA