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following us for quite a while, but

eventually they must have decided we

were harmless. That was when we

decided we would go farther out into

the country to see how the common

people lived.”

“I bet that was fun,” I said.

“It was kind of fun,” Loren said.

“But the farther we got away from the

main cities, the fewer people spoke

English, and none of us spoke

Russian. We were able to get along

for quite a while, using hand gestures

to help people understand what we

wanted. We were able to buy food,

find places to stay and buy the other

things we needed. But then, one