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I had not prepared myself for the cold that I felt when I reached Sheremetable Airport.

That's the airport in Moscow, one of the airports?

Yes, it was, my lips couldn't move.

I was numb, you know.

And to make matters worse, I was wearing this kind of fluffy jacket, a Cameroonian summer jacket.

But in Russia, it felt like I was, literally I was working in ice.

Eric Nagali Charles was 17 when he arrived in Moscow, broke, confused, and alone.

Eric had been trafficked from his home in Cameroon, and he really didn't want to be in Russia.

But his experiences there would form him.

The bad, ugly, strange and miraculous,

it would all eventually set him on a course

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