"All these wars fell hard on my studies.  The school year started very well.  I was attending school, and was fond of music and fond of English.  But one day the war crossed it all out. We became refugees in Ingushetia.  I am missing my school year.... 
     Peter, when you are in America, please ask all children to write letters to Putin to stop the war in Chechnya and not to kill civilians, especially children.  During the first war, I spent 20 days in the cellar with my parents.  In fact, it is not as romantic as it appears to be in the action movies.  Our house was hit by a bomb."-Maryam