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That story was dedicated to my adult daughter, Liliana, who was adopted from St. Petersburg at age 15, and experienced the challenges of a Russian orphanage. Both of my sons, now adults, were adopted from a Latvian orphanage at ages four and five. Latvia is my parents' home country and I am a first generation American. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead of continuing the \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChildren in the City of Czars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e timeframe, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSwan Out of Water\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e takes place ten years later and exposes the impact of childhood trauma on a young teenager and the difficulty of assimilating into an American culture. 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