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Maxim and I had married almost twenty years earlier. We hadn\u2019t rushed into having children. I was working on my dissertation, which was extremely difficult. Later we took out a mortgage for the apartment we live in now \u2014 an old two-bedroom that needed major repairs. We continued renting while slowly fixing it up, eventually moving in, though the renovations dragged on for five more years. We couldn\u2019t do it faster \u2014 sometimes Bogdan was born, sometimes money was short, sometimes we both worked nonstop, sometimes I was defending my doctorate. Life spun us in a whirlwind of events, but we held on together, and little Bogdan gave us the strength to endure anything.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Maxim and I had married almost twenty years earlier. We hadn\u2019t rushed into having children. I was working on my dissertation, which was extremely difficult. Later we took out a mortgage for the apartment we live in now \u2014 an old two-bedroom that needed major repairs. We continued renting while slowly fixing it up, eventually…<\/p>\n

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