Bacon! That's to keep up one's strength.
Rye bread! No Latvian should leave his country without it. That applies whether he's heading East or West, whether he's escaping or being deported in a cattle car. That's why the bread! It's every Latvian's ID.
Read more from Laima's Muktupavela's The Baltic Pigs Have Arrived.
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Amaryllises ...Her son-in-law was a graphic artist, and after helping with the potato harvest or haymaking his hands would shake for several days from lifting the heavy weights - he was the first to stop coming. Ella thought he was a wimp. A doodler. As for her daughter-in-law's profession, she couldn't tell a soul about it. A doctor of women's butts.
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The Innocent Virgins ...There was a girl I once had for just a few days. You might even say I didn't have her at all. In the sense that she wasn't mine and I wasn't hers. We didn't even get around to having sex. Just made out a bit. Went to the movies; saw a film with Johnny Depp; went to get pizza. That kind of stuff. And then she disappeared. Simply disappeared.
Read more from Pauls Bankovskis' The Innocent Virgins.
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