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     I got spoiled right from the get-go. The attention thrust on me was frustrat ing: “the very first woman pastor in Russia after seventy years of atheism and  persecution!” “She grew her church up to a thousand members!” “Oh, she knows the wife of the First President of Russia, Mrs. Boris Yeltsin!” The newspaper articles with my interviews became an embarrassment: almost all of them told the story of a young woman who cut off her communist roots. I was never a communist!