It was the frost-damaged potatoes that saved Iryna Starostina’s starving grandparents.
They had buried and forgotten about the vegetables but dug them up after the Soviets came through scavenging every morsel of food in Orlovets, their village in central Ukraine.
The thing is, Iryna and her 18-year-old daughter Marychka now have their own grim story to pass down to grandchildren some day. The blasts frightened Marychka, too, but what disturbs her more are the stories of rape and murder that Russian soldiers left in their wake as they retreated from Bucha, just west of Kyiv. It horrifies her that seemingly ordinary people could be capable of such crimes.
In Kyiv, Iryna conducted and sang professionally in a church choir, taught in a music school and had a side hussle leading a children’s choir. Here she sings with the Victoria Philharmonic Choir, but pays the bills by making sushi at Save-On Foods. Marychka works there, too. Marychka feels the same. People here are great, but this isn’t where she belongs. “I’m a stranger here.”
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