The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Garden of Earthly Delights

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Observing the empire from afar.
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Observing the empire from afar.

Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania.

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I grew up in Romania, in an era that was either called "transition" or post-communism, depending on who you asked. The 'post-' is still controversial decades later, but at the very least, no guns were pointing inward at our border anymore. 

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