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Бабушка Валентина о детстве и любви

Grandma Valentina on childhood and love

Russian with Dasha

Valentina, born in 1938, tells her granddaughter about a hungry village childhood, a schoolboy she married and a secret uranium settlement where she typed classified reports. You hear an older speaker's rural turns of phrase with her own jokes.

1211 words, about 9 minutes of reading.

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