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“I'm twelve years old and I'm an invalid. The mailman brings two pension checks to our house - for me and my grandad. When the girls in my class found out that I had cancer of the blood, they were afraid to sit next to me. They didn't want to touch me. The doctors said that I got sick because my father worked at Chernobyl. And after that I was born. I love my father.”

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Book:Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

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