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Article: What Grandma Kept Hidden From Us; Deep down, I didn't want to know the truth about Babushka if it meant dealing with my own mortality.
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- Newsweek
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- September 10, 2007
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Byline: Anya Ulinich (Ulinich lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.)
By the time I took my 2-year-old daughter to visit her great-grandmother in Moscow, we hadn't seen my Grandma Gita in more than a year. After my grandfather's death, Grandma had spent two winters at my parents' house in Arizona but then decided to return to Russia for good. When we arrived, Grandma looked frailer than she had on previous visits and her apartment was dirtier. But overall, everything else seemed normal. We had tea, and then my daughter and I went to the living-room sofa to sleep off jet lag. Soon, we awoke to a thudding sound. Grandma sat at the kitchen table, aggressively stabbing a whole ...