Stories from the Stage: A defining moment leads to a lifetime of change

After falling in love with an American student, a doctor in Moscow leaves her life behind to start anew in the US. But being a foreigner in a foreign land is not quite what she expected, nor is the marriage she staked her new life on. Elena Yureneva shares her experience with the storytelling project, Stories from the Stage.

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