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BarbaraPose
My name is Barbara, and I am the Aunt of a young man, born Victor, Victorovich Suschev on September 9, 1985. He was born in Vladimir. He has an English translation of his birth certificate. The district is listed as Vjazniki. The village is listed Perovo. We do not know when he was separated from his birth parents, but we do know their names: Victor Garilovich Suschev and Svetlana Sergeevna Suscheva. He lived in an orphanage for as long as he could remember when he was adopted to the USA. New York State, at age 9. As a child he was amazing. He entered the 4th grade with very little English, but a tremendous amount of skill for standing out in a competitive, congregate setting. (Regretfully his education was only in English, so) when he was introduced to multiplication facts, he understood that the "winner" was the one who knew them all. He learned the English words for the numbers. He learned the answers to "6x7=" and all the expected multiplication facts. He was indeed a winner in the subject. But, he had not understood what he was memorizing until months later. Imagine the drive and hard work! Victor is now a man who values drive and hard work. He is thankful for his adoptive parents who raised him to be an independent adult. Yet, he is curious to meet his parents, or any siblings he might have in Russia. He wonders what qualities he might share with them. I am doing this research as his Aunt because he tried to locate his birth parents years ago. He was inundated with offers for expensive services he could not afford. He was frustrated because he forgot all Russian. (And may not have learned to read and write it before adoption this is not clear.) However, it has become easier to connect with translators, and it has become easier to contact people abroad since his efforts. So I agreed to try to get the search started again.