Running Away from the Russian Circus

Running Away from the Russian Circus

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"Mamaaah, does the magician need a new assistent for every performance?" The story of a circus kid growing up in the Soviet Union shortly before its fall - the weird travels, growing up stories and adventures -- observations about language, the daily life in Russia and the republics at the time, circus, family and emotions of somebody who is new to this world.
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Arctic MK

When I was four, my family moved from Pascagoula, Mississippi to Alaska. Daddy was minister, and he went to Alaska as a missionary. That made me an MK, missionary's kid. This is the story of my experiences from age 4 to 9. Memory is a strange thing. Some of what I remember vividly, my mother said didn't happen the way I remember it. While Mama recently passed and is not around to argue with my interpretation, I apologize ahead of time to my siblings whose memories might vary from mine. While the story is based on my memories, I have added fictional details when my memory of those details fails me. This makes the story more readable. The bulk of the story takes place in Fort Yukon, an Indian village north of the Arctic Circle. While Indian may not be the politically correct term today, it was the word used for native Americans when I was a child and so that is what I will use.

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