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10. That's when my grandparents came to the US

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Sat May 6, 2017, 11:07 PM

May 2017

They would never talk about the "old country" and were very proud Americans.

My grandmother, did however, mention that the Cossacks rode into their houses with big sticks and hit them over the head.
I thought she was just making up scary stories.

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