#pro-pals

If one person tells the other that they've just escaped from a concentration camp, normally, it's a reason to be happy for them, not sorry. What would that ankle-biter prefer, that I stayed in russia and got imprisoned for extremist activity along with my husband? I really don't get this type of thinking and logic. It's like some Western people- ah, pardon, not people, kids - have no concept that once you get born in the wrong country, your whole life goes wrong until you move somewhere normal. But even then, you're going to be forever an outsider, a stranger in a strange land.