And the Answer is Yes!

1909 Valentine

Over the past year, many of the people who have read Blue Thread ask me the same question: “Did Miriam and Ephraim ever get together again?”

Now, in honor of Valentine’s Day, I’ll tell you that the short answer is yes. Most definitely. Miriam gradually came to love Ephraim, who had been smitten with her for months before the book started. They married in 1914, back in Portland, at Temple Beth Israel. Miriam’s father, Julius, was furious at his only child marrying “beneath her.” M...