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A Return Trip

Overcoming apprehension to find a pleasant surprise.

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JD Breen
Jun 09, 2023
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Tallinn, Estonia

June 9, 2023

My wife left the USSR as a ten year-old girl. Since her escape, she hadn’t returned to any place that had once been Soviet soil.

Until now.

Leaving most family and possessions in Odessa, Ukraine, she and her father made their way across Eastern Europe, thru Vienna, and thence to Rome.

After a temporary stay in the Eternal City, …

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