Anastasia, Russia & Us

First Contact: Anastasia had been playing in the ball pen and off came her shoe.
To everyone's surprise, she plopped down in my lap and commenced figuring out how
she could get this shoe back on. We were told to let her do it herself --she's that way.

[The kids don't see any men --much less scary-looking, bearded ones that speak a funny language.]

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