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It's a long way to Boston from Tiraspol, which sits midway between the Moldovan capital Kishinev and the port of Odessa, down on the Black Sea.
Boris hasn't been there in years, but it's hard to pick up English when you're getting on, so he's brought his daughter Sofiya to translate. His chief complaint is, "Fatty growth on head."
Boris is a squat man in early old age, with coarse features, large senile comedones all over his forehead, and a few wisps of gray hair that do nothing to camouflage the large cyst above his right eyebrow.
"It's not cancer," I explain. "It shouldn't get any larger. Do you want me...
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