**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other 'real' relatives alive, relationships operated under a 'Law of Compression' in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins and grandparents. Amir and Effi collected relatives. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue who put his tea bags through Selektion, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighborhood saint, who knew everything about everything, but refused to talk of his own past. Amir and Effi also collected information about what happened Over There.