It is usually a hello that's accompanied by a warm embrace.
"I said hello, and that's it.
When she goes to Tel Aviv, she sees the doctor and the dentist, stops by the newsroom to say hello, and that's it.
"I see her in the hall and say hello, and that's it," said State Representative Brenda K. Landwehr, a conservative Republican who heads the Health and Human Services Committee.
People just say hello, and that's it, are you doing your gardening again and, you know.
When the doctors did their grim divulging, I went up to his sister's house in Yonkers to say a hello that was really a goodbye.
"We had seen each other a few times before that, but I would say 'Hello, goodbye' and that's it," she said.
"A hello, goodbye, and that's it," Cashman said, "because anything else, I don't want to be distorted, to be quite honest".
Hello becomes "hubellubo" That's it!
"They say, 'Hello, Grandma, how are you?' and that's it," said Betty Azerier, who is 89 and has lived in Stuyvesant Town since 1960.
