Roy Exum: ‘I Can Find Grandmother’ Friday, July 9, 2021 - by Roy Exum
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Scarlett is too young to understand. She keeps asking for her grandmother, the one who taught her how to read, work with numbers and who became magical during the pandemic. Her grandfather explains there has been an accident, a bad accident, and they can’t find her. “Ahhh,” says little Scarlett with a four-year-old’s exasperation. “She does this all the time …. but I know all her hiding places! Take me there and I can find her!”
Oh, that it would be so simple. Scarlett’s grandmother is the larger-than-life Judy Spiegel, who has now been missing for two weeks and is believed to be beneath the rubble in Surfside, Florida (just north of Miami) where a 12-story luxury condominium catastrophically collapsed in the early-morning hours on Thursday, June 24.