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Lydia over the years in Belarus

With Mom in the Frankfurt airport

Lydia with her boyfriend Oleg, our photographer (they share a birthday) on Karl Marx Street

Arriving in Kiev

With her godmother Lydia Danielevna

Much love,

Doug Brendel

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