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Her Third Culture Life Echoes Across the Years

There are things we — I — took for granted for so many years, and usually didn’t even think of

I had just turned eight. My mundane days existed at Liberty Street Elementary school in our quiet little town of

The Soviet Union came to an end in August of 1991 with a Coup d’Etat in Moscow. My husband, Nicholas,

I recently read a book on culture shock and have been thinking about it lately. Since I just moved, I

There is a good Russian restaurant in St Paul, MN called Moscow on the Hill. We went there the other

The city of Moscow had a centralized heating system and hot water came into the apartment in pipes from the

When I was little we lived in New York State where snow was pretty common. The day it snowed in

In Washington DC, it’s called “The Metro”. It is sterile, clean and expensive. It opened in 1976 and has five

The college I attended in California had an exchange program with several colleges on the East Coast so I decided

It’s a gloomy rainy day here. Reminds me of Moscow. Land of the Dark. I found it interesting recently when