Milwaukee

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Boris and I went to Milwaukee today to visit the girls. We didn’t plan it originally, but Anna had a very bad knee injury, and Boris wanted to go to cheer her up (not like I didn’t want to, but I have more options to visit). I do not want to go into Anna’s medical details here, but the last three weeks were not easy. Anna told me earlier that Nadia and Kira were very helpful, and today, I got a chance to see for myself.

I was astonished by the changes in both girls since I last saw them a month ago. It felt like they became two years older in all imaginable ways. Nadia has her own bus pass and her own library card, which she carries in her wallet. She showed me a page-long essay she wrote and her geometry assignment. Kira’s speech made a huge leap. Both Nadia and Kira are very helpful at home. Kira can load and unload a dishwasher, and while I was there, she spent at least twenty minutes doing the dishes, rinsing the plates from the traces of food, and loading the dishwasher.

We went to IKEA together (Anna used a scooter inside the store), and then we (mostly Boris and Nadia) assembled a gigantic Kollax section.

A couple of pictures from today:

Walking to the Union Station. I rarely visit this pat of the Loop these days, and I forgot how stunningly beautiful this bridge is!
Approaching Milwaukee
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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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3 thoughts on “Milwaukee”

  1. Очень сочувствую Анне, ведь я сама с обоими коленями, неоднократно травмированными. Знаю, что это такое ((
    Шлю пожелания выздоровления, пусть скорее все заживет

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