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I'm not gonna tell you a pack of
lies to make me look good.
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I'm just gonna tell you
what happened.
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My name is Yuri Orlov.
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When I was a boy,
my family came to America.
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But not all the way.
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Like most Ukrainians,
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we gathered in Brighton Beach.
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It reminded us of the Black Sea.
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I soon realized we'd just swapped
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one hell for another.
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Even in hell, an angel
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sometimes makes an appearance.
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I'd worshipped Ava Fontaine
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since I was 10 years old.
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Of course, she didn't know I existed.
:04:34
I was starting to think she had a point.
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For the first twenty-odd years of my life...
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...Little Odessa was to me what it
is to the Q train...
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...the end of the line.
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"Little Odessa," New York - 1982
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Oh, I did lie about my name.
:04:51
It's not really Yuri Orlov.
:04:54
There've been few occasions
in the in the 20th century...
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when it's been an advantage be a Jew.
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But in the 'seventies,
to escape the Soviet Union,
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our family pretended to be Jewish.
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Little about my life has been
kosher ever since
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How's it going, brother?
:05:08
It's not.
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That's Vitaly, my younger brother.
:05:11
He was as lost as me.
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He didn't know it yet.
:05:14
Yuri,
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you're late.
:05:20
My father took his assumed
identity to heart.
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He was more Jewish than most Jews.
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Which drove my Catholic mother crazy.
:05:27
How many times?
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I can't eat shellfish.
:05:31
It's treyf.
:05:32
You're not Jewish.
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I like it.
:05:35
I like the hat.
:05:37
To remind us there is something...
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above us.
:05:41
I like that.
:05:45
I'm going to temple.
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You're not going to temple.
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You go to temple more than the rabbi.
:05:49
Get off my back, woman.
:05:51
God, will you ever wise up?
:05:53
Yuri, don't forget to check
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the specials at the Palace.
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Growing up in Little Odessa,