“I, um — I guess. My grandparents were refugees — no one else wanted them.”
They should eat some of this sandwich. It's hard to concentrate on that and also surviving this conversation, though. This is the slowest they've ever eaten food put in front of them in the entire time Michael has known them. They keep pecking at it like a bird. They're gonna eat an entire bag of lime Tostitos later.
“Tel Aviv is so modern — so many buildings went up in the 60's, they tore so much of the old ones down. In Jerusalem it's so different; everything's so old —”
Gently steer the conversation away from uncomfortable personal topics, go.