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How to love your partner I will always remember when I first met Dr. Ruth. It was a few months before her 75th birthday – so, a little more than 21 years ago.

I was at a Jewish charity event, and was walking by a few of the tables where various auction items and services were being offered. One was "Lunch with Dr. Ruth Westheimer at the Ocean Grill.



" I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and it was Dr. Ruth.

She had two words for me, and delivered them in her famous German accented English. "Buy me!" DR. RUTH WESTHEIMER, AMERICA'S ‘SEX THERAPIST,’ DEAD AT 96 A little taken aback, I said the only thing one could say to Dr.

Ruth: "Okay." She reiterated it. "Buy me! I want to have the lunch with you .

" I won the auction. I had no idea why Dr. Ruth was so insistent that I "buy" her.

But she was a Jew, and so am I. Deep in the Jewish tradition, starting with the story of Joseph in late Genesis, is the idea that the world is full of things whose meaning and significance will only be revealed much later. I surely did not know then – and doubt that she did either – that the lunch at Ocean Grill would turn into a great friendship of more than two decades which would have a massive impact on my life and that of others who became close to me.

When Dr. Ruth insisted that I "buy" her 21 years ago, I only knew of her as the famous sex therapist who was on the radio all the time during my childhood. In getting to know her, I came to know that my friend was not just a famous.

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