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@bradfitz It all started with a game of Durak. I was a High School freshman and my friend Kathryn had an exchange student from Moscow. A whole bunch of my friends studies Russian. The textbook was amazing. I got sucked in.
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@bradfitz Ended up spending a month in Moscow my senior year of high school, majoring in Russian Studies, and studying abroad in Moscow my junior year at Wesleyan.
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@bradfitz Lived in a dorm, ate hatchipuri at a local mafia hangout, went to a rave at the Childrens' Palace, bought a bootleg copy of Oracle 7i for Linux under a bridge, bribed a handyman with a bottle of Stoli, got email with UUCP w/a modem connected to the phone line with alligator clips