My neighbor used to date a girl from Lithuania

Artist: Jenny Walton

People used to say that they’d have trouble because
they came from such different worlds. And to be fair,
Post-Soviet Eastern Europe isn’t exactly Greenwood,
Indiana. Cold borscht and cabbage isn’t exactly home-
made chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes
with a slice of white bread. To be fair,
they came from completely different worlds.
But he said that wasn’t the trouble at all. The trouble was,
he said, that no matter where you’re from, everyone says
I’m sorry in another language.