Sunday, December 14, 2008

*The inexplicable presence of existing.

Bernard Madoff handled accounts for some Twin Cities investors who may have lost more than $100 million.

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM, DAVID S. HILZENRATH and AMIT R. PALEY, Washington Post


Deborah Coltin learned Friday morning that the $8 million foundation she has led for a decade, which supported a wide range of Jewish programs on the north shore of Massachusetts, did not actually exist.

Coltin, executive director of the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, spent Friday in mourning, taking condolence calls and trying to understand what happened.

Let's
say
you
were
Deborah.

You
woke
up
one
day.
Got
ready
and
went
to
work.
Just
like
you
had
the
last
ten
years.
You
show
up.
Fed-
up
with
traffic.
"One
little
snow
and
they
all
act
like
they've
never
driven
before."
Pull
into
your
parking
spot.
Open
up
the
door.
And
you
don't
exist.
Wouldn't
you
be
pissed?


*inspired by Mary Margaret Leidle

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