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From the Lives of the People

George Losev Facebook September 14, 2021 I chatted with an 86-year-old woman while I was changing the power outlet on her kitchen stove. She was from a village near Vologda and still pronounced her unstressed o’s as full o’s. She worked for 58 years on construction sites. She started working in ’54 or ’55. She worked three years as a helper, then eight years as a painter before making the switch…