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Finland #2

Alexander's cell phone worked just fine in Finland, thanks to the Europe-wide GSM network. This is one of the czar's dachas, in what is now the Finnish part of Karelia.

(I met a girl in Seattle who had worked at an orphanage in the Russian part of Karelia. She said there was a lot of Finnish spoken there, and people thought she was Finnish too.)

Helsinki, Finland -- September 1996

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