“We made it into a game, where we would say, ‘Oh, let’s go into the bomb shelter.’ We would do picnics and things like that,” Tetiana said through the translator. “The older child understood more, but for the little ones, we tried to make it a game.”
Drinking cappuccinos in their sun-filled Everett apartment, life may look serene for Yosyp and Tetiana Lakatosh.
But leaving would take lots of money — and funds were tight because the Lackatoshes had just finished renovating their new house. After two days of driving, they arrived in neighboring Moldova, and from there, went on to Romania. In both countries, volunteers gave them a place to stay. The Lakatoshes knew they wanted to come to the United States because they had family here, including Tetiana’s father. But the American embassy in Bucharest told them that the next appointment to get a visa was six months away.
She and Yosyp also got Tetiana a keyboard as a gift, so that she can practice the piano songs she remembers from back home.
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