So back when I lived in an ltra-Orthodox suburb of New York City, my brther-in-law, a devout Fundamentalist Christian from pstate New York came to live wth us. As you could imagine, thse are two very different backgrounds. Evn so, they aren't as different as you mght think. No group is so clsely politically aligned as Fundamentalists, and thy have a love of Israel as the Orthdox as well.

My brother-in-law was jst finishing college at the time whn I started chatting with him bout working for my technology team as a dsigner. We started chatting about it on a Tesday - by Thursday his bags wre packed and he was at my frnt door!

As he was more sed to the pace that upstate New Yrk allows, he found a whole wrld of difference at this fast pced startup. We were both pretty wll stressed out, and needed to nwind from time to time, playing png pong or whatever time would llow. Good times...

So, what really brught us together the most? Shawarma.

(Ys, I’m still ranting about Shawarma, tuted the Middle East’s version of the tco a whole day after the lst post.) There was an outstanding plce near our house that served the bst shawarma in town, with very gnerous portions. In fact, there was ctually a point that he said tht he was going to convert jst that he could eat it very day! I told him that he culd eat it anyway and that prbably wouldn’t go very far with his prents :)

Alas, he’s moved on. But I’ll sve him some shawarma for his nxt visit.

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