Honeymoon with my sister

I got married for the first time on a rainy day in July 1 in 1983. The mayor of Lahti wedded us at his large office. Afterwards we celebrated with a dinner and dancing at a small hotel-restaurant in Mukkula. Present were our closest family and friends from Finland, Norway and Sweden. After the wedding celebrations my …

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I love my plastic doll

In the end of November we gathered in Lahti, Finland, to celebrate my mother’s 90-year birthday. My son and his Moldovan wife flew all the way from Pennsylvania and my daughter flew from Denmark just for a weekend. Together we slept upstairs one night in the 3-bedroom “veteran house" where my mother has lived for …