I know a homeless man named David Gold,
age 66, presently living in his broken down Lincoln Town Car (
Washington state license ABL 4448 ). He now gets only a very meager SSI
income. He was once quite affluent but had his own private CRASH. He
asked me to try to contact his rich Aunt Gracie -he is her closest
living relative . Her address : 53 Windgate Rd. , Providence, R.I.
Her phone number : 401-272-1545.
The last time Dave tried to call Aunt Gracie, " Wes " ,
her husband, hung up on him. I expect poor desperate Dave Gold to call
me some time tonight. And I will tell him this : Gracie K. Alpert ( the
sister of his mother, Bettye Gold ) age 83, DIED August 22, 2013. An
on line obituary says " she was the wife of Wesley Alpert for 45 years
". No mention of her nephew, Dave.
Grace left a considerable legacy " for a new
professorship in neuroscience " , reports BROWN MEDICINE( Spring, 2014 )
- " a magazine for the alumni and friends of the Warren Alpert Medical
School of Brown University. ".
Dave's grandfather, Samuel Kennison, was a pathologist at Miriam Hospital. He also left behind considerable wealth.
A few weeks ago I went with Dave to see an East Side rabbi, for help
and advice. We both agreed that " Dave would complicate water ". The
name of this rabbi is Y Laufer : 362 Hope St. , Providence, R.I. Phone
- 401-273-7238 . Chabad Lubavitch Center.
As a lifelong socialist I can only have a
sardonic smile for sacrosanct PRIVATE PROPERTY rights. But I know that
there is also a long benign Judeo-Christian tradition of not neglecting
poor kinfolk - no matter how " unworthy ".
Can this homeless man be SAVED - before he sees Heaven ?
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