“May I tell the story of Purim?” she asked at the end of their dinner. “Of course,” Pim agreed, and so she’d gone off to her room to retrieve what she’d written. “This will make the evening,” Pim said when she returned to the table with her notebook. They all stared at Anne; even her mother waited to clear the table so that Anne could tell the story of Esther, an ordinary girl who saved her people when she pretended not to be a Jew so she could marry a king. When the Jews were in danger, Esther admitted her faith and begged for her people’s lives. Once, in the land of Persia, where we were not
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