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About the Author

Mary Vera Dietter was born in Romania a couple of years before World War II, which she felt the most of the war time living on such a Russian territory that suffered constant Soviet and German bombing and artillery attacks and switched from Soviet to German hands and back again many times. 

Successfully completed high school and the university with major in physics and math, Mary Vera with her husband moved to Siberia to work for the Ministry of Defense. She completed the postgraduate school in one of the scientific institutes of the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences and then worked for the world-famous Central Air Hydraulic Institute. She used her knowledge in cybernetics for researching some medical and biological problems and for problems related to coaching Olympic athletes 

When life in the Soviet Union became especially dangerous for her family Mary, her husband and her son’s family immigrated to the United States.

About the Book

Here there are the first ten years of the former Soviet Union refugee family’s life in the United States, of the family of three generations and the life in the totally new for them country. It was the country with absolutely unknown for them and often alien rules of life. The country was using the strange and difficult for learning language that usually in reality is just a combination of the idioms and inimitable rules of pronunciation.

Those were the years of revealing to the members of the family that their understanding of this country is far from reality. Those were the years full of everyday clashes with unexpected and always new problems in all that related to the people life, starting with the obscure even for themselves their own reactions to the reality surrounding them and unexpected their own behavior; starting from search for the professional job, for means of subsistence, for habitation, for appropriate medical care; starting from purchase of everything required for life — to the perception of local residents, of problems how to communicate with them, to perception of themselves.

One member of this family is writing about her family experience and for sure being hot on the trail and with honesty and in details in the numerous letters to her close friends and relatives. To share with them her own emotional experience is not the only goal of these letters, but also to give to her closest people her new acquired knowledge, to make it much easier for them the enter into the new life that is just around the corner for them too.

With hope that this book may touch your feelings and maybe give you some help and peace of mind,

Mary Vera Dietter

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