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MormonTimes.com: Days Like Floating Water
Two sixty-somethings, Susan McKee and her husband Robert accept a humanitarian assignment to teach English to college students in a village near a large but primitive city struggling to make its way into the 21st century. Of course, being in a Communist country, they agree to leave religion and politics out of the mix. From the minute they arrive life becomes an adventure. Whether a trip to the market to find food they can recognize, to navigating the maze of Communist bureaucracy, nothing is ordinary or familiar.
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