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It’s a word you’ll hear a lot of this year, bandied about so often it’ll be surprising if no political entre- www.reflexology-works.com preneur goes out and gets it trade- marked before the election cycle ends. To many of us, freedom is a given, a fact of life, even a slogan. But to Eva Vecsernyes – native of Hungary, single mother of two, eleven-year resident of Astoria, and, as of last month, fully- naturalized citizen – freedom is the operating principle of her life, the thing located at 1004 Marine Dr. #7 in Astoria’s historic underground that informs everything she does. “I am a very bullheaded person!” Eva smilingly exclaims. “I don’t like being told what to do too much!” Coast Community Radio Which is not, as you might imagine, the most comfortable attitude for a child growing up in Communist listen now! Hungary. “There, I was told how to live my life. I like to live my life on my own terms – I understand there are rules to be followed but this is my life, I only have one. I don’t need my government telling me how I should live, where I should work, what I should read, what I should watch on television. I am entitled to choose my own life, as a human being.” And choose she did. Just after eighth-grade graduation, fourteen- year-old Eva hopped a plane to Alaska and immediately found emancipa- tion – not to mention extreme culture shock. “Culture shock? You’d better believe it! I come from a country that was technologically – not necessarily behind but kept back. I mean, they’re just finally getting color television! Spring Pledge Drive March 9-19 Come on! So you come from that to Photo: Dinah Urell Graphic: Richard Ridgeway a place that has washers and dryers across people who tell me ‘go back to your own she is now a full-blown citizen of the USA. oca Business Owners! L l Have your gifts announced on the air: … you’re going, ‘what’s a dryer? What’s a mi- country?’ Sure, but that’s just the bigots. Who “Anybody who’s afraid of it, don’t be! It’s the l More listeners crowave? What’s an automatic door?’ I didn’t cares? But to come across such a united front easiest test I ever took! They give you a study In t l know what to make of it all!” like that – that was very shocking. It’s such a guide for a hundred questions, and they say de den Standout spots - no clutter pen l Members who value your If major appliances take some getting used drastic life in Alaska in many ways.” Freedom they’ll ask you up to ten. I got asked four – CoastRadio.org support of community radio! to, imagine being confronted with a whole called again; she divorced and, with children who is the President, who is the Speaker of the world of cultural referents undreamt of in a Victoria (now nineteen) and Jonathan (seven- House, if I’m willing to bear arms for the United 503-325-0010, [email protected] Hungarian teen’s philosophy. “The movie Alien teen) in tow, “bummed around” the lower 48 States, and… there was one more question KMUN 91.9 fm AstoriaKTCB 89.5 fmTillamook was not allowed in Hungary, for example – the for a while. “I was in Arizona for a little bit, that honestly I’ve already forgotten! Then they government considered it ‘too violent’ so it was then Texas, and eleven years ago, I came here asked me to read one sentence, write one banned. I remember my aunt protesting to for two days and haven’t left yet! sentence and that was it. It was really simple have it shown and getting into a lot of trouble “Astoria got to me,” she says. “There’s a lot – I went into study mode like a crazy woman for for it. Certain movies were kept out of the of neo-classical architecture here, everything’s two months for nothing!” And what’s different country, there were certain books you could a little bit older, and there’s a real sense of now that she’s officially American? “I can bitch not read, and all pornography was completely history, which is one of the things I miss about in public now!” PREMIUM POWER illegal… so when I came here and saw how Hungary.