1998, On the Eve of Emigration

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Clarissa

March 3, 2015

What’s really freaky is that in this photo from 1998, there is a purse that looks exactly like one of the purses I use now and that I bought in Florida. And I don’t even remember that purse or what happened to it:

This was taken in my apartment in Kharkiv. I’d spend many hours in this arm-chair, surrounded with dictionaries and working on my many languages.

When I look at this photo, I find it curious how little I changed. I still sit in a huge arm-chair surrounded with dictionaries. It’s a different arm-chair, a different continent, and a different husband these days. It’s also different dictionaries because in those days I worked with German and French and I don’t do that any longer. But still, I love being surrounded by books and papers that stick out of every crevice.

I very rarely smile in any photos because smiling makes me look half-witted. See the previous photo before you argue.

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7 responses to “1998, On the Eve of Emigration”

Ol.

March 3, 2015

You have not changed at all.

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 3, 2015
  
  This photo does look like it could be recent, eh?
  
  16,5 years. Unbelievable how much happened.
  
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  1. Stille (@aperfectbalance)
    
    March 3, 2015
    
    It really does. You looked painfully young in the previous pictures, but in this one you look like yourself.
    
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    1. Ol.
      
      March 3, 2015
      
      Exactly.
      
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      1. Clarissa
        
        March 3, 2015
        
        My readers know me well if they can determine which photo looks the most like me so easily. 🙂
        
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cliff arroyo

March 3, 2015

What I notice is the soviet era telephone. As awful as that system was I really love a lot of commie era design in the east bloc.

And since no one else has said it, you don’t look half-witted when you smile, you look…. beatific, for lack of a better word.

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 3, 2015
  “And since no one else has said it, you don’t look half-witted when you smile, you look…. beatific, for lack of a better word.”
  
  Thank you, this is a kind way of putting it. 🙂 Unlike in the photos, I smile a lot in real life and I don’t want to think I’m freaking people out. 🙂
  
  “What I notice is the soviet era telephone. As awful as that system was I really love a lot of commie era design in the east bloc.”
  
  I still miss the rotary ones. . .
  
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