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 | | In summer, the insect life takes firm control of the land, and mosquitoes and dragonflies swarm the forest and meadows, accompanied by a truly vile insect that resembles a giant housefly but sucks blood through a tube extending from its head. |
 | | If you grow up in Ivankino, you can go to a technical college in Kolpashevo or a university in Tomsk, and end up integrated into the Russian economy as a skilled worker, or simply pack up and move to a larger city and find work as a clerk or laborer. |
 | | By then I had already studied the language for several months, reading Selkup folk tales gathered by linguists in the seventies, and it was exciting to hear the schoolchildren recite and sing. |
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