So Edward, who was sitting in the back row, decided that Mike needed to be remembered a different way and asked the family if he could say a few words. Edward got up to speak in front of the sixty or so mourners, and after a few minutes had everyone laughing at the memory of a man who was the youngest in a family with five girls, whose Jewish parents were so grateful to have a boy that they always called him by the Yiddish term of affection bubala. For years, Edward told the group, almost no one in his family could recall his real name! Which is why he was known as Michael Michaels.
