Imagine, if you will, three Russian nesting dolls. Let us suppose that they are ornately decorated eggs; perhaps instead of boasting a specifically Slavic façade with the smiling, matronly face of a shrouded woman, they are instead woven over with Arabic calligraphy or geometric designs. You’re adults; you can imagine your own eggs.
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