When I was growing up, my maternal grandparents lived next door to us. I remember sitting on Grandpa's lap as he told me, in his thick accent, about Bulgaria—the country where he was born. (Bulgaria is bordered by Romania on the north and Greece and Turkey on the south. On the eastern border is the Black Sea and on the western border is Serbia, Montenergo and Macedonia.) He told me there were beautiful mountains near his home town and that the winters could get as cold as those in Minnesota. In one area of Bulgaria, there was a Valley of Rose...
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