Emily · Quoth Gwen Stefani (sort of), "I'm just a girl in the world studying Soviet-era legal dissidence in Bremen, Germany"
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Eastern Europe is special. It is Europe, only more so. It is a place where people live and die, only more so.
— From The Taste of Ashes, which I have just started, but with which I am already in love.
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