Bubbes volunteer to do what they do best: Counsel troubled souls

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Sandy Bonner expected the relationship questions. When the 70 year-old volunteered to put in a few shifts this fall as a Jewish-grandmother-at-large in downtown D.C., she knew she would be asked to counsel people struggling with their love lives.

It was the other lamentations that surprised her. Each night on the job she was met with a line of beleaguered young strangers: overtired caretakers, war-torn couples and — in droves — the overeducated unemployed.

From where she sat, two feet and about five decades apart from the people who came seeking her wisdom, it was obvious these Washingtonians had an abiding problem.

"They were anxious about being anxious,” she said.

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