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Byline: Megan O'grady
He was born and raised in Communist Poland; I grew up in suburban Kansas City. He was sent to the store with the family ration card to wait in line for Cuban bananas; I argued with my parents over making my bed. His mother was a Solidarity labor organizer who narrowly avoided arrest during martial law; my mother was in the PTA. A collage of childhood photos to be displayed at our wedding was scrapped after the sepia-hued portraits of young Przemek, in eyeglass frames only Kim Il Sung could love, were deemed entirely too poignant.
While we were warned that entering into a multicultural marriage entailed certain risks, we trusted that ...