If you've ever had the feeling that a situation feels very familiar even though you know it shouldn't feel familiar at all, like if you're traveling in a city for the very first time, then you've probably experienced déjà vu.
I was only three years old when my parents, sister and I emigrated from Leningrad in the USSR to the United States in 1980 as "traitors", losing our Soviet citizenship and turning our backs on Communism for the "evil capitalist West". I was the catalyst for my family fleeing from a city and country that no longer exist.
I've always been envious of people with exceptional memories. You know, the kind of people who amass encyclopedic knowledge with seemingly little effort, while we mere mortals struggle to remember the name of the person we were just introduced to. There's hope for all of us, though. Just...
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