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relatives that had Bibles or other religious

things, watched as the K.G.B. came and took

away parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles.

The children hadn’t known they would be

taken away. She said that her best friend lived

right next door, and the night Tatiana’s

grandmother put the Bible away for the last

time, Tatiana heard banging on the neighbor’s

door, some screams, and yelling. The next day,

her friend, eyes red and still crying, told her that

they had taken her grandmother. Her friend

said her family was all angry at her, and that her

father said the men would take her grandmother

and send her to a camp in Siberia where she

would surely die.

Tatiana felt a horrible feeling, knowing

that she had almost done the same thing to her

own grandmother. She said her friend never did

see her grandmother again, and she became

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