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Hello Svetlana, you said in your letter that you wanted to see more of my hometown
and since my hobby is filming, I thought I'd do it this way.
This is a nice little town, you'll see. It's nicer than Chernobyl anyway.
Ahh, the square. The heart of my hometown.
Everyone walks here, from snobbish conservatives to self-righteous hippies.
Look at those stone blocks there, "Evolution"... Silly name!
It's just a bunch of stone blocks with water on 'em!
This is Franzén School, where I went to junior highschool.
Or like we called it back then, *** High!
Just look at the color of the buildings, god damn that's ugly! Green like snot.
I got through junior high, that's what matters. Even if I just barely made it.
And here's Sambiblioteket, the swanky library. The city was real proud when this was built.
I think it cost the city about 40 million.
I guess the more big glass panels, the better...
You like to read books? Well here they have plenty of books, lemme tell ya.
I don't read that much myself... I borrowed a book once, used it as toilet paper.
And there's the Middle Island, a little park that's also used to hold parties sometimes.
What the hell!
Here's the house I grew up in.
Nobody has lived here for ages, and you can probably tell.
That was my room. My mother died when I was 10...
Pity.
My father was crazy, he always used to say:
You might as well stop dreaming, everything turns to *** anyway.
I might as well agree with that, but everything else he said was pure claptrap.
Nick's Place, Nick's Place... Nice little place.
I have no idea why it's called "Nick's Place", maybe some guy named Nick lived here before, nobody knows.
It's nice here during the summer anyway, with parties and drinking, and bathing in the water.
You have no idea how many times I've sat there on the jetty, thinking and philosophizing.
Thinking about how many more beers it's gonna take to forget all the crap that's happened...
Wow, look at that view, that's a lot of water! I should...
take out a ***' boat and do some fishin'...
What the hell!
Here's the tobacco factory. I worked in this shitbox for 20 years.
I rolled cigarettes and stuff.
I smoked my share of cigarettes, too.
Imagine having to drag yourself to work for 20 years, then be laid off...
I don't know if I was that angry, really... The work was ***.
My boss was an ***, but then all the bosses I've had were ***.
So this is my hometown... I've had many happy times here as well as bad times.
Mostly bad times.
I've learned one thing in my life, without family, work or friends this town is a ***.
Maybe you'll be the one to change that.
I guess you're really excited to get here, now? Hehehe...
What the hell!!
*** this.
What the hell!!