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"He pushed me to go into competitions where I would use Russian in theatrical spaces. And it was like a Russian theater thing that we did at the national and regional level. And I went quite far. And it was really fun to speak in Russian in the sort of in the theatrical space. And then I went ahead and started doing theater, and the rest is history. So, yeah, Dr. Cassie was my guy. I know he's 80. He still surfs in Ashway Park."