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Army would not be a real trump loyalist and lord knows what would have happened. Then tonight, former defence secretary mark esper a lifelong republican on his tumultuous tenure during one of the most chaotic times in the nations history. Even before the pandemic, american kids have been dealing with a crisis, rising breeds

suicide, self harm, anxiety and depression. Your generation got hit with this in was supposed to be kind of a fun carefree time. What was lost? What did you guys lose during the pandemic? Myself yourself? Yeah august mere nova is a russian prima ballerina one of the world's leading dancers, but days after russia invaded ukraine, supernova pure wedded in step offer stage at the renowned bolshoi theatre with dramatic flourish. I was so ashamed of prussia and this is a troll. I'm not ashamed that I'm russian, but I am ashamed because of russia,

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How would you grade president Biden and his administrations performance and of ukraine, its mixed there a shaky start? I would have never taken the military option off the table. For example, I dont understand the reluctance to provide the ukraine's with me spider fighter jets right, but since then its picked up, I think we're now flowing more supplies material in weapons in the ukraine. I think they ve done a good job bringing the allies along, which is important if you have to act collectively- and you have to give some credit by the way to the congress, which I think you know the few few issues that is unified congress has been this one support for ukraine and in some ways they led the administration. it's good, to see now. Congress and executive branch acting together reasonably allied to help the ukrainian people. Tomorrow may night marks an important day on the russian calendar victory in world Or to why, I think the conventional

right now seems to be that by may knife Putin is going to try and secured dumbass, which should be paying the rest of the dun ask and low hans provinces if you will and declare them pretence it is there any scenario where president Putin could take those regions and then just declare victory. Absolutely absolutely if I were a betting man today. I'd say that is what he will do: hill at least secure. They all of claire that he's liberated the russian speaking peoples of that region and declare victory and that will be another frozen conflict. Marcus first time as secretary of defence began when he was overwhelmingly confirmed by the senate. Ninety two: on July. Twenty third, two thousand nineteen, two days later on a phone call with It is MR trump asked for a quote: a favour. While he was hold of aid to ukraine, the call ultimately led to his impeachment. You had to keep pressing president

to release tuna. Fifty million dollars and aid. Ukraine, yes, and it would be argument, after an argument not to say look, must present the end of the day congress of appropriated it. It's the it's the law. We have to do esper writes in his new memoir called a sacred oath that the ukraine affair an early source of tension between him and president trump that tension. Would grow, as he told us. met him at his alma mater west point, because it's important our country, it's important to the republic, the american people, they understand what was going on in this very consequential period. The last year of the trump administration and to tell the story about things, we prevented really bad things, dangerous things that could have taken the country and in a dark

direction. What kind of terrible things did you prevent at various times during the certainly the last year, the ministries and your folks in the white house, or proposing to take military action against spanish whaler too, to strike iran at one point that somebody proposed. We blockade cuba, these ideas. What happened It seemed every every few weeks something like this would come up. We'd have to swap em down whose we had this one guy mostly me. I had good support from from general mark milly Casper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. General mark milly ran the army for over a year before finding themselves in charge the pentagon, in order to deal with what he calls some of the crazy ideas coming from the white house spur and milly came up with a system. I come up with this idea. Actually mark million, I discuss it. What we call the four knows, the four things we had to prevent from happening between then and the election

and one was no strategic, retreats no unnecessary wars, no plan, politicization military and no misuse the military and so ass. We went through the next five or six months that became the metric by which we would measure things esper told us he had reason to be concerned, not just about an unnecessary military conflict with an adversary, but with one of our key his neighbors and largest trading partners. The president Pulls me aside on the least couple occasions and suggests that maybe we have used us milton shoot missiles in mexico should missiles. Mexico for what he would say two to go after the cartels, and we would have this private discussions. I'd say, MR president, you not, I understand the mode because he was very serious about dealing with drugs in amerika. I get We all understand I had explained to him weak. We can't do that. It would be international law law would be terrible for our neighbours to the south. It would you know

this in so many ways. What what do we do this? Instead, you politely push back on the idea. Did president trump really say? No one would know it was us yes, yes, I I he he said that and I I just thought was fanciful right because of course it would be us. I was reluctant to tell the story because I think I thought people won't believe this, that they'll think I'm just making it up and folks in in in trumps orbit will dispute it, and then I was having dinner after the election and twenty twenty with a fellow cabinet member and he said to me. He goes you know, remember that time when present trumps suggested, you shoot mess missiles into mexico, and I said to him you you heard he goes all yeah. I couldn't believe it and I couldn't believe how how will you managed and talked him down from that and at that moment Do I gotta right the story because at least have one witness who will verify that this really did happen witnessed

esper story about mexico is true. Donald trump said in his aiming to sixty minutes, no comment, esper says to fact check his book. He said all or parts of his manuscript to more than two dozen current informer worst, our officers, senior civilians from the pentagon and cabinet members. Sixty minutes two six of them who said what they read was accurate, during the late spring of twenty twenty. It was not a foreign crisis at the murder of joy floyd in Minneapolis that esper calls a turning point, in his time as secretary of defence on the night of thirty first in washington, protest for racial justice. are by rioters, who said parts of washington, ablaze and esper says enraged. President trump at a meeting the next morning. Ass were told us, the commission You're in chief was on the verge of ordering ten thousand active duty troops into the streets of the capital

most disturbing thing that the president said during that meeting on june. First, the present is rioting. It at the room he's using a lot of you, no foul We know you you all the losers right and then he says to the vice president, my pants the issues in the same language and look into pets. He called my pants athens lizard, you didn't, kill him Luckily, but he was looking at him when he was saying it and it really caught my attention and I thought that we're at a different spot now he's going to finally give a direct order to deploy paratroopers in the streets, washington, DC and unthinking with weapons and bayonets, and this would be horrible. What specifically, was he suggesting that the? U s military should do to these protesters reaches can't you just shoot just shoot them in the legs or something, and he suggested that we should that we should bring in the troops and shoot the protesters the command. and chief was

suggesting that the? U s military shoot protesters? Yes in rates, a measure of our nations capital. That's right, shocking. We have seen in other countries a government used their military to shoot protesters. What kind of governments are those others are banana republics, writer authoritarian regimes, we all remember tiananmen square right in china. Regarding whether he suggested shooting protesters in his statement? Former president trump said this is a complete lie. ten witnesses? Can back it up mark esper? Was we and totally ineffective, and because of it I to run the military. Aspartame He wanted to avoid the president, invoking the insurrection act, which would have allowed MR trump to deploy active duty troops. Instead esper says he helped mobilized Thousand members of the national guard, whose mission include

responding to civil unrest and to placate MR trump s rights? He also ordered part of the eighty second airborne up from fort bragg north carolina to a base joe, outside washington. Had eating the? U S, part police used force to clear protesters from lafayette part and the cabinet was called back to the white house. The present a great success- and I say where we going and hid the ages, ignores and starts walking out the door and crossing across the the law on heading out the gate and as we round the corner of the press, all over all the place, filming taking pictures and it it just dawned on me at that point time, tat we ve been duped, do how this has put this now political stunt right and an we. I allowed myself to be put in opposition and it only gets worse right. How does it get worse? Well, we end up in lafayette park up near the church and

where the president steps out of the crowd. If you will goes up, picks up the bible and holds it up for everybody to see, and I eventually get directed to come up and join him and up. I made that mistake to to kind of be there. In the first in the joint within twenty four hours, esper says he send out a message to employees of the department of defense, reminding them they must remain a political and protect freedom of speech. Then he decided that wasn't enough the republic that wobbly that's what prompted me to decided to go before the podium at the pentagon on June third and say what I said: the option to use active duty forces in law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in them urgent and dire situations. We are not in those situations. Now I do not support invoking the insurrection act right after that, esper was summoned to the white house. He said

He was sure, Donald trump wood, fire him. Why did you think you would fire you, because I publicly rebuke and and what I would learn later is at the white house ass. He thought I took away his authority to invoke the insurrection that he did not believe tat. He had the authority to impose so politically, you might have, I suppose, at a political level. I did, but he still had that authority what he asked Who was, I wasn't, gonna go along with them. Esper belize, president didn't fire him at the time because it may have heard mister. My chances for reelection, does esper, also Thus he did not vote for either Joe Biden or donald trump mailed in a ballot for another candidate, your lifelong republican, but in this book you detail, Are you subverted many of the president's wishes. People will say you were disloyal. I never disobeyed

Direct or from the present united states, I was fortunate that he often didn't give direct orders, but otherwise I did what I thought was best for the nation and for us charity and completely within the authority granted to me under the law. Critical say why now in a book, why didn't you speak out during the trump administration? It's very simple. If I spoke out at the time, I would be fired number one and secondly, I had no confidence at anybody. Came in behind me. What be a real trump loyalist and lord knows what would have happened then spur says six days after the election, he and his staff could hardly believe they were still at the pentagon. Then he got word that the president plan to fire him. The phone rang and donald trump, cheapest f. Mark meadows was on the line you right in the book. He says the president's not happy with you. He feels you haven't supported him enough. He added you aren't

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Urgent general has called it an urgent public health crisis, a devastating decline in the mental health of kids across the country. According to the cdc, the rates of suicide, self harm, anxiety and oppression are up among adolescents. A trend that began before the pandemic tonight will take you to know. Walkie was constant, a community trying to help its kids navigate. A mental health crisis was constant. Has the fifth ties increase of adolescence self harm and attempted suicide in the country with rates nearly doubling since, before the pandemic and emergency room, children's hospital in Milwaukee doctors like michelle, get or seeing more kid desperate for mental health help. We unfortunately see a lot of kids who have attempted suicide. That is something that we see I'd say at least once a shift to shift

Oh yes, yes, unfortunately, doktor picking has worked in the EU are for nine years. Is there any group? That's not being impacted, know we're saying at all kids You know who come from very well off families, kids, don't kids, who are suburban. Kids were urban kids, whirl were seen in all the surgeon, and needing help for their kids has revealed a deficit of people and places to treat them across country the average wage time to get an appointment with a therapist is forty days in four children. It's often longer What does it say to you that the place they have to come of the emergency room that there's something wrong with her system. The emergency room should not be the place to go and gets in acute mental health care when you're in crisis we are now nice com. fireman's, but their desperate yeah, but we were there and we see everybody, but I

If there were more places that kids could go to get the help that they need. We just have a couple of questions for you to answer to manage the mental health crisis and heavy caseload doktor picket entered. An ipad with a series of questions that screen the mental health of every child too. An older comes to the e r. For any reason, among the question Have you been having thoughts about killing yourself and have you thought your fan It would be better off if you were dead, harsh questions that can be lifesavers to the kids. who answer them. We ve had forecast that I know of personally that came in for a completely and related problem, so a broken arm or in iraq or whatever it was actually were. acutely suicidal to a point where we needed to transfer them too impatient of facility a right to the end there. So where catching hens word in very much crisis like that, but where else catching the cancer chess need help and dont know what to do

haven't really talked about this. According the cdc hospital of me since data a shows? The number of teenage girls who have been suicidal has increased fifty said nationwide since twenty nineteen, I thought it was norm so few men, as was one of them, crying every night, not knowing what's going on, and I felt so alone Sophia your friend: nina use were an eighth grade, looking forward a high school when Cobain turn their worlds upside down. I've always been a super smart kid and I've always had really good grades and then as soon as the pandemic hit. I I failed a class when I was virtual I had no motivation to do anything I would just sit. in my room, never leave and it was like, these signs of depression? My mental health got really bad, especially my on eating disorder. I was based

glee, home alone all day, my herons, while they notice that I was in eating it would refuse to so then they ended up taking me to the hospital Sophia had to stay in the house. For two weeks before a bed opened up at a psychiatric facility. You generation lake got hit with us in was supposed to be the fun carefree. Time was lost. What They lose during the pandemic. Myself yourself I would definitely say there pieces and myself that I we're dead we lost. I lost friends because. We wouldn't see each other. Couldn't go to our first home coming. I couldn't an eighth grade, graduation and that doesn't sound that big of a deal on a big deal when you're in eighth grade yeah, I feel like if the pandemic haddan happened at all.

Out of my leg, sadness and like mental problem, It would not be as bad as they are. It just made everything worse. Are we in crisis right now: we are, we are in crisis mode and it's scary, tammy MC clure has worked as a child there. Throughout wisconsin for the last twenty five years? I think there was a hope that you now we're factions. The cancer are able see their friends again and play sports that this would all go away. Has it no? No I notice that the weightless are longer kids are struggling with more anxiety, more depression. So you were in a mental health crisis. Prior to the pandemic, did the pandemic accelerated. I believe so we're coming out of the pandemic by kids have still lost two years to you.

Of socialization two years of education to years of their old kind of being shaken up so we get corner unquote back to normal think kids are struggling even The pandemics over this crisis single. We over. Cdc number show that, even before the pandemic, the number adolescent, saying they felt persistently sad or hopeless was up forty percent since two thousand and nine there are lots of theories on why social media chris screen time and isolation, but the research isn't definitive. This pass Marge tammy mc clure was tapped by children's hospital to run an urgent care, walking clinic specifically open to treat kids mental health area, and we are here to get some open seven days a week.

In three to nine? Thirty is one of the first clinics of it's kind in the country. Now, what's going to work for you and what's going to work for you, so when they come to our clinic, we assess them and we provide them with a theory. recession. So we give them some interventions. We give them like a play out and an action plan. The plans are cater to each child situation, actionable things, families kids can do while they look for a doktor or facility to make room for doubt How long have the weightless spin to get help normally or put on your schedule than appointment within a few months and months now, yeah and then, if you want a child psychiatrist that you're looking at lake months to a year. How important is it to get them help when they need it immediately. As days go on that terms, get worse. If you have a depressed child, you know maybe

it out where they were feeling depressed and then, as the days goes on their suicidal It really, you really do need to get that help and that support right away. Eleven year old, Austin bringer desperately needed that support during the pandemic. He's a fifth grader at developed elementary school in Milwaukee how old, where even the pandemic it yeah, I was not I was still going to school, but then I kept hearing on the news in the car just like pandemic stay put quarantine. Fourteen days, when they first said hey, you don't have to go to school. What was your reaction at that moment. Heaven, but then I realized it's the complete opposite because, like and of school age. Kids Austin was forced into remote learning for more than a year and disconnected from friends, because, like this shut it like that,

I way you can see. People is through, like phones,. Or your family that you live with. that isolation took a toll on Austin who was already struggling with news that his parents were getting a divorce, and that's when I think everything just started to magnify he now he was always asking to see his friends. We couldn't- and I remember there is one moment that he was just on the floor: late kicking and Jane Eyre just but couldn't describe why he was upset unable to vent with fresh, and without access to impersonal person, therapy Melissa says his world began, closing in on him fellow he was interactive, ass, an just kind of withdrawing into himself and spending a lot of time by himself and I went took him in and he said, mama I'm having suicidal thoughts and he was held. He was nine then, like. I was kind of lake. I I didn't know it too. I didn't know what to do. I imagine

of going through all these things, like jumping from a building and like taking a knife from my kitchen and I think my life it was. It was over fifty of them that distance in my mind, I don't really know foods from all like this anti socialist, I love will. It also felt like we did worse a lot of the owing fell, like my parents didn't need me any more Just surely hard to think about that, but desperate melissa austin pediatrician, who preferred her to outpatient therapists and impatient psychiatric programmes. Only too he told there were long waiting lists and no beds This stuff is racing through my head and then for them disable, there's no beds right now and, unlike how am I going to keep him safe enough

to try and keep kids safe wisconsin. is trying another approach approach, that's being adopted in other parts of the country. Thirteen pediatric clinics across southeastern wisconsin have incorporated full time therapists inside Iraq. since offering mental health screenings and treatment as part of routine care? Okay. So, let's start with our assessment doktor brilliant, never was the first pediatrician in Milwaukee to create a therapists office inside her office, you're saying where here together, we're in all work on this together, not weakened If you go see somebody else zactly in still having a therapist in our clinic to really does have died. Beata team together discuss that patient and found me together. Two pounds ideas off of each other, because we both know them so well, is so much better for peace,

care, doktor numerous clinic treatin underserved community, where families typically struggle to get mental health. Help airports have treated more than five hundred kids here since the pandemic started. I think, as pediatricians in primary care providers like we can know. Gorgeous solely say in mental health providers. Are the only ones that are we taking care of our patients and rigorous and mental house like this, is now something I need to be joint. You astern brings pediatrician now has a therapist in her office to their family was fortunate to five regular outpatient therapy for his depression. How do you feel now. Oh, it's much better than before everything's going up in my life and knowing that like I'm friends with everyone class on building better so life, it's fun

just know: there's others that, like this things as highly us. It is easy thing to talk about other stuff Why did you agree to tell us how you and because the world, each, It leads no mental house and stuff like that needs to be treated or bad stuff could happen. if you're, going through that by yourself trying contact someone. You know where your friend your family and talk about it. hey, Jefferson, why here I? lay jimmy herds from on the paramount network original series. Yellowstone yellowstone is back and bigger than ever, and so is the official yellowstone podcast. Now this isn't just your typical recap: pie cast every week: you're gonna

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in ninety nine, these television, what happened? What story wishbone to a former top banana in the world of two nineteen sixty when the girl Michel was the only banana that we got. They were clearly better, listen to mow bitch wearies, wherever you get. Your part casts for decades now. Russians have known the drill when there is bad news brewing, such as the death of a leader or a convulsive events such as the true noble disaster state tvs, which is its programming and begins airing. Try caskeys, ballet swan lake, nothing to see her folks, but also note the choice of distraction ballets

centrally important to russian society and to russian image? Dancer slicing through the air and challenging laws of physics and gravity represents civility and grace, but after february, twenty? Fourth, when russian military troops invaded ukraine, russian valley troops had their western tourists cancel and just last week, Moscow's bolshoi theatre abruptly cancelled shows directors, critical of putin's military campaign, and so it is the brutal war plays out on the most delicate affronts, leaving ballet in exile. when ballet dancers or described, is god's athletes. Well, you could offer up august mere nova as supporting evidence. She treads air coming in on little cat feet, she's a russian prima ballerina, one of the world's leading dancers, but

he's after russia invaded ukraine, smear nova, pure wedded and stepped offer stage at the renowned bolshoi theatre with dramatic flourish. She took to social media to express our outrage and then fled the country. The modern day version of maria for boorish knockoff defecting. When you sit down to write that social media post what did you want to communicate? What did you want to say? I just couldn't keep it inside I was so ashamed of russia, and this is the true I'm not ashamed the time russian, but I am ashamed because of russian started this section read what you wrote. You said you were against this war with every fibre of your being, but I now feel but a line has been drawn that separates the before. In the after its how I felt trying to force four february.

This was the lion, because it's all change all changed the report of russian russians people even you're, not a soldier, he owned just russian it. So it's still Make a shadow on you being russian being latian, it's really painful. Predictably smear lovers posed to advise She was, after all, a leading light in Moscow's bolshoi, ballet. from the russian word for big bolshoi is the world's largest ballet company and the most prestigious. The theatre is physically close to the kremlin, a short walk away and also aligned inextricably with the russian government tsars loved the bolshoi for decades to come

Its leaders use the bolshoi theatre for political stagecraft, holding rallies in giving national addresses there. This has something to say brains, russia, every important guess he would visit the soviet union. Would be invited to the ball should see the performance and never sir, a pride of a fresh at any time, alexei red muskie, trained at the bourgeois school and was for a time its artistic director. He was born in russia, but grew up in key where his parents still live. She should be done about at the time of the invasion he was in russia, choreographing to ballets. He left the country immediately. willing to continue working in a world so tied to the Putin regime. As I was goin,

tax suit of airports. I felt this too caught sent castles falling apart. My back. Does the same? Castles were the work. The work dying? Yes, yes, yes, it was an agony. I was very today and, of course, the catastrophic day for ukraine, indiscriminate bombings and missile strikes rain down upon the country, crushing lives and dreams, not least those of an assent. and ballerina from keys, paulina, Chebec age. Seventeen you wanted to be a ballerina for years and years. What was it like when suddenly you couldn't can go to school, dance. I was shocked and I, like all my got and first about one I'm thinkin. It to my boy and shoes in college. It was my other herself. You left your point.

school. I left everything. Actually, war didn't stop her in her footsteps. She resumed dancing, it using whatever she could as a bar. But after a few days, her parents, both former dancers, focused on getting paulina out, they called on a famously well connected figure in the tight knit ballet community new jersey based louis leo you're, getting this barrage of emails from from parents and from dancers. What are they telling you. What are they ask you Please help there was get us out of here. They willing to give up everything else, but they have to dance and the parents were you know it doesn't matter? What would do they have to dance there there lifeline others is it they just day they could not. Imagine

Then, in the nineteen nineties she found it: youth, america, grand prix, a ballet competition and scholarship programme, pairing aspiring dancers with ballet schools worldwide. Well, not they want to see her full year, but you have to call for the summer. First now in a humanitarian crisis. She in the international ballet community scramble to action, sadly have kept her vast network reload hating more than a hundred young ukrainian dancers, two new schools and host families. We give each child a number just to move faster and that we say ok number. Fifty five is like just get a spot in it's ok, number fifty four just get a spot in Dresden cross it also across it off the list when a slot open for polina? She stuffed leotard and tutus into a suitcase

along with a bottle of her moms per few a reminder of home, and then she headed two keys train station My parents are in a window of train. They said goodbye. I view you, everything will be fine and I was crying and we will all crime. I was thinking We always need to take my suitcase and go back to my family, because my heart was broke into really had to overcome that. What what? What made you knock? It the train because it's open door for me. It's like door for my dream. Seventeen year old, that she is paulina documented, the lonely odyssey on Tik tok trains and buses, five days in twelve hundred miles keys to le vive poland to berlin. Finally, to Amsterdam, where she lives,

at the dutch national ballet academy, one of the leading schools in the world when you got to the new school and started dancing again, have that feel, Oh, I was very happy. Yes, I my mind change, because I would think involved, my parents, it all the time for my family, for my sister Anne I go to the valley class, the this world change. For me, a Heaven the work of of bali. Her adjustment was made easier when she found other ukrainian dance students who, thanks to lorenzo, sadly of also found safe, arbour in amsterdam, paulina fell into a routine immediately on the cost of a professional career she prepared for final exams. She was jittery beforehand. She emerged. Relieved, triumphant and eager to report back to mom

What did you tell her that I was nervous when I start everything right. If the war has made refugees out of some ukrainian dancers, it's made soldiers out of others. When the war began, alexey putty pumpkin a principle dancer with ukraine's national ballet turned in his types for milk, eerie fatigues here he is in downtown levine last week, having just returned from duty as a medic. What was your lifelike? or the war before war. I must I preparing new premier in bali ukrainian barely know real normal life. Just one moment it's like changes, but I need do something I can suggest at home in sheep in the watch tv, how my friends die and everyone do something

have you seen these last few months, day, it's really scared, Z, rushed racine, destroyed houses. Of civilians. People browsers son fathers, sisters well, says he shaken by what he seen unfold on the battlefield he's also appalled by a war taking place on another front the bolshoi, the show? Now it's toxic feature. Nobody to what was you? You said toxic toxic? Yes in russia, art its politics. the russian government to use use it barely it's like weapon. The weapon was deployed at the bolshoi as recently as last month when the theatre revived production of spartacus in support of the russian military invasion unnerving many in the dance world, including

time ahead of the dutch national ballet ted branson. Well, It was a very clear statement that we have to what our boys, who are on a military operation. to save ukraine from the fascist, which is a totally ridiculous concept of This allegory spartacus about the slave revolt is somehow and cooperate by the acting president superpower. Absolutely no is now it's not it's not for nothing that this became one of the signature balance of the soviet and that of the soviet time the abroad. The ballet community has staged, benefit concert to raise funds for ukraine, while Russia's famed companies, the bolshoi and ST petersburg's marine sky, have had their touring dates I think you need to be more. Exquisite was with the iron curtain, down artists have to pick aside. Alexei Alexei, ratmansky left me.

scowl for american valley theatre in new york, where he is artist in residence in where we spoke with him remotely last week, sounds like you, you don't buy this idea that look individuals should bear the responsibility for for the acts of the state that our artist who just be artists now I dont think that artists are separate from policies besides: it's not for maize, le politics about humanity. It's about response. to war crimes, responses the crimes of your government of your president. It just made things clear which thanks I important and which aren't.

and you make a choice. You decide where you want, should belong for august, mere nova. That choice came together in a matter of days after she condemn the war. She left russia and landed on her feet at the dutch, national opera and amsterdam. Just around the corner from paulina school. It must have been incredibly difficult to leave the bolshoi if you make a choice if ever consequences, but our talks. I had to leave everything like my home. I say it on my report on my partners. My parents ceased to brother everything, but they don't have regrets. You'll regret

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