The food was on the huge table all ready for us. I sat at the head of the table and bowed my head. “Let us thank the Sky Spirits for all they have g...iven us this day. Oh mighty Sky Spirits, we thank you for these wonderful gifts this day, we thank you for allowing us to have such a good family and such good friends, like the ones soon to join us. We thank you for the wonderful bounty of food we are able to gather here and we thank you for allowing us to live this wonderful life. Please take care. " I don't care what Mr Pyle told you," she quipped. "No one makes demands of me. No one is indispensable." Forget my raise request," I said, trying to retreat. "I love my job here. Really, I'm satisfied with my present salary. I'm sorry if I mislead you about my intentions."She leaned back in her chair and smiled. "Tell you what I'll do, Sandee. I'll think about it over night and let you know tomorrow whether you still have a job here. That's all ... get back to work."I stumbled to my feet,. We looked at each other, and each of us spun our dreidels and watched as they danced together on the floor, spinning blurs of yellow and red doing a dance of avoidance with each other, until they drew close together and hit one another, abruptly ending the spinning and ending the game, as they flew in opposite directions on the floor. “Nun,” I heard from Shoshana as she looked at her dreidel. I glanced down and saw my own dreidel. I leaned in closer, and in a silent murmur to myself, under my. She brushed it together and put it in a high ponytailwhich she tied off with a thick pink satin ribbon in a bow. To finishthe hair she pulled a small strand of hair out of the tail on each sideof Marcy's head so it neatly framed her face.The last thing Stephanie did to finish off Marcy's look was giving hera good spray of strong floral smelling perfume and putting a hair hoopon top of Marcy's head, it was adorned with an arc of pink lace frillswith a white satin bow on the right side making it.
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