Word: lubelski
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...sedate hotel dining room in Helsinki, she gives a writer a big, rowdy kiss, and orders not vodka but tea and a huge chunk of chocolate cake. She talks of a happy, privileged childhood in Tomaszow Lubelski, a town of some 20,000 people about 200 miles southeast of Warsaw. Her father ran a construction business until he became ill some years ago. She was a track star as a child; at eleven she had the best time in Poland in the 80-meter sprint. She began to be interested in the stage, but theater simply did not exist...
...from Tomaszow Lubelski had ever done such a thing. "In Poland people stay in their towns; they have their houses, their televisions, their jobs," she says. "Maybe if I had fallen in love at 18, I could have lived that way, but I would not have been happy...
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