Author: Meghan Dunn

She named us Yuri and Sergei and Boris. The first verbs we learned were to smoke, to drink, to live. We were thirteen years old. We learned  through repetition. I smoke, you smoke, he or she smokes. We live. She named me Masha, Mashinka when I was good, Mashka when I was bad,  which was often. We memorized charts of…