My mum was a nurse in Ukraine. She was doing her training when the Chernobyl disaster happened in 1986 and looked after some patients from the nuclear accident. I was born in Kyiv in 1991, right after the break-up of the Soviet Union. The situation was bad, people were very poor and there was very little food or goods to buy. My mum said they couldn’t find diapers for me, so they had to use napkins. My parents had an arranged marriage which didn’t work out, and they got divorced when I was…
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