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Things I Would Rather Not Know. But I Do
Skip this post if you want an uplifting light reading. This one is not. It is about terrible events.
I did not plan writing this post, but it comes to me every day...
My mom died in 1988. Several days after the funeral my older brother, who lived with my mom, asked me whether I wanted to meet one of her friends, whom I did not know. My brother told me that he knew a lot about the Extreme North, where I lived at that time.
I wanted, both because I thought she would like me to meet her friend, and I also was curious as to his connection to the Extreme North.
He was in his early 80s, not a big guy by any standards. He shook my hand and something was weird with his hand, but I could not figure it. He lived in s small studio apartment 5-10-minute walk from my mom's apartment. I asked him how he got to the north, and he smiled at the stupidity of my question. In 1939 there was only one way to get there - GULAG. Yes, I was sitting with a man, who was in the GULAG in the most terrifying years, and yet survived. Very ... more

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