Svetlana Kim's remarkable story opens in Leningrad, Russia, on a frigid winter afternoon.
Standing in the bread line for the third day in a row, she listens as her neighbors discuss the impending fall of the Berlin Wall. Life as a student in a crumbling country offered few possibilities for the ambitious young woman, so when a former classmate offers a plane ticket to the US, she jumps at the opportunity.
What happens next is a series of amazing events that even years later is almost hard to believe. But, Svetlana’s story of coming to the US with a dollar in her pocket and without the ability to speak English is true.
Over time she not only learned English, she also became a successful business woman, including a stock broker. Through it all, when nerves threaten to fail her, she returns to memories of her grandmother, White Pearl.
Svetlana’s story is so inspiring! You’ve got to hear it!
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