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UKRAINE/FAMILY
A Young Mother From Ukraine Thanks Our Community for Helping Her Feel at Home
And reveals her heartache.
There was a pink piece of paper in my community mailbox this morning.
It was a heart-wrenching letter from Galyna*, who, along with her two young children, has come to live in our 55 and older community.
They are refugees from Ukraine.
Yana* is her 13-year-old daughter.
Stepan* is her ten-year-old son.
Vadym*, her husband and the children’s father, is in the Ukrainian Army.
They had to leave him behind and escape the country after their city was bombed and invaded by the Russian military.
They have lived in one of our condos for two months.
It’s hard to imagine how they are adjusting to such a huge change. The children are taking classes to blend in for when school starts in the Fall. They all speak pretty good English.
Galyna wrote, “A few months ago, our lives were turned upside down. Someone says it turned 360 degrees, but I would not say so. 360 degrees is something real, something that can be imagined. But, in Ukraine, things happened that were impossible to imagine, even in the worst…
