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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Best local ads in DC except for old Eastern Motors and Jhoon Rhee.   Bonus points if Zed is mentioned.

An article once referred to Ronnie Mervis as the "Indiana Jones of Diamonds".  [/quote]

The family story of the Mervis's is actually pretty harrowing/amazing. It goes back to before WWII. Grandmama Mervis was just barely able to escape Lithuania as a teen and was a refugee in Johannesburg, SA, and was about to be sent back to the nazis, who’d since captured Poland and Lithuania. But she met Morris Mervis, who was working for a moving van company his father started in J-burg. She recognized the family named from back home in Vilnius, and she chased down the young man driving the truck and pleaded with him to do something to prevent her from being sent back to Europe, where she would certainly be sent to a camp. He told her he’d marry her and that would allow her to stay in SA, thus saving her life. She later bore their sons  - Zed and Ronnie - and Morris got into the diamond business that was taking off in SA at the time. Were it not for her seeing the Mervis name on the side of a moving van, she likely would’ve been sent back to Europe and been murdered in the holocaust.

The Mervis’s are good people. Some people might think the commercials are corny or hokey, but as a MoCo native, I’ve been hearing them my whole adult life, and to me they’re comforting and familiar.

And “heteronormative”? Well, heterosexuality IS the norm. So, yeah….  Grandmama Mervis would’ve envied your lifestyle where the biggest thing you have to worry about is this gender insanity y’all preoccupy yourselves with. [/quote]

I don't understand how being married would keep her from concentration camps. Plenty of married people were sent to camps. Nazis didn't care. [/quote]

She would have been deported since she had no reason to be in South America. Refugee status doesn't work in most countries. [/quote]

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