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THOUGHTS OF SAMUEL WHEN HE SEES HIS HOUSE AFTER A LONG PERIOD?
When Samuel returns to the village after 40 years, his parents initially don't recognize him, believing him a "nobleman" because of his height, his mode of travel, and the clothes he is wearing. They did not expect him, for they did not receive the "cable" he says he sent.  While they had received letters and photographs from him through the years, they found the letters largely "illegible" due to the Yiddish being mixed with other languages, and with their poor eyesight, they could barely make out the photographs.  The Gentile names of his children "were so strange that Berl and Berlcha could never remember them."