Nineteen.

Memories of my mother, Stephanie Ellen Sussman, 19 years later (and a recipe for her Mock Chopped Liver)

My nephew, Jack, figured out that the Hebrew and English dates of my mother’s passing (February 9, 2006) coincide every nineteen years, so here we are.

Nineteen is the age of a college student. A dollar shy of a $20 bill. The name of that Steely Dan song. But how can it possibly be that Steffi has been gone for that long?