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🗓️ 29 January 2020
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Oleg Lougheed grew up in a home struggling with alcoholism, poverty and starvation. He learned that the best thing he could do to alter his trajectory and overcome impossible odds, was to separate himself and say goodbye to his mother, his sister and everything he knew forever. He gave up his parents' rights when he was 9 years old. He was adopted at age 12 in Chebarkul, Russia to a loving family in Michigan, 5500 miles away. Listen to his story and discover how you too can overcome your odds.
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0:50.0 | My sister was 18 years older so she was in her mid-20s and she was all of the sudden faced with this dilemma where I was her brother but then she was having to play a role of a parent and I don't know if that's what she wanted to do at that particular age. |
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1:20.0 | regret and resentment that happened because of that particular decision my mom had made. |
1:26.0 | And some of those moments put me in situations where I did almost witness my own sister take my mom's life. |
1:34.9 | I ended up going through a set of very challenging circumstances of sometimes not having a place to sleep not knowing where my next meal is going to come from. |
1:48.0 | In fact, I can still recall the day when I was living up my sister's apartment and she was sitting by the window with our |
1:56.8 | last bowl of food for the day, last ball of rice. |
1:59.8 | I remember I walked into the kitchen crying because I was hungry. |
2:04.4 | She turned around and she started crying and she handed me that last bull. |
2:09.4 | So I can pinpoint every one of those moments that happened in my life. |
2:14.0 | And I ended up living that life for about five years |
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