30 Years to Finland
/by ERIK ORTON
It’s been 30 years since I’ve been to Finland. My mother is Finnish. She moved to NYC at age seventeen to be a nanny. A few years later she met my dad and they got married. I’m half Finnish. I used to spend summers in Finland as a kid. My last summer there I was fourteen. My mom worried I would be bored spending all day in my grandmothers two-bedroom/one bath apartment, so she signed me up for a cycling race. I was big into cycling at the time.
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