What Im trying to tell you is that it took place exactly a dogs age ago, nine or ten years to the day, if not a bit more or less. I was the same man then that I am now, only not at all like me; that is, I was Tevye then too, but not the Tevye youre looking at. Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman, Shocken Books.
Still chewing on it....