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Memories of Chernobyl: Tahoe resident recalls life in Ukraine during world's worst nuclear disaster

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Sitting at a picnic table at Incline Beach, in the outstretched shade provided by a towering Ponderosa pine, Incline resident Tatyana Floam could no longer restrain tears as she rifled through a box of meticulously organized letters dating to the late 1980s.Those letters contain references to the odd paradox of those bygone years - the happiness related to a newly burgeoning family, commingled with fears that very family could be endangered by an environmental disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.Floam, who has lived in Incline Village since 2002 and works at Sundance …

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