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Svetlana, Constantine, and Stephen traveled by airplane (Pan Am’s “Crystal Palace” Boeing 707) to Paris, reaching Belgrade on July 19, 1974. The resignation of President Nixon was reported in Politika. They returned by JAT via Ljubljana to London, and by Pan Am (in some other airline’s 747) to Dulles, later that month.
The summer trips to Minnesota continued until Constantine started college in Charlottesville, Virginia. Svetlana learned to drive.
Svetlana and Stephen visited Belgrade in 1981. Constantine was hospitalized with Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
The family moved to a house in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1983.
Svetlana’s father Slobodan died March 27, 1984.
Liam’s mother died July 4, 1985. Svetlana (in 2010) described the graveyard near Hector International Airport by Fargo in North Dakota in which Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Hannaher are buried: „На домак школе са једном учионицом коју је Лијамов отац као дечак похађао, усред обрадивих поља која се надовезују до обода хоризонта под огромним и предивним небом равне Минесоте. Где тишину малог гробља у прерији данас повремено прекида зујање авиона који узлећу или слећу на аеродром који је изграђен у близини.“ Constantine was asked to move out by the end of the year, which he did.
Stephen graduated from college in 1986. With both children having gone to in-state colleges, Liam decided to travel more, he and Svetlana visited other parts of the United States and various countries in Europe repeatedly. Tresa died November 12, 1986.
Stephen bought a Garnet Red Plymouth Horizon and moved out in 1989.
Svetlana retired in 1994.
Svetlana obtained a modem in 1996 and got online with Erol’s.
Svetlana’s continuing difficulties with Charcot-Marie-Tooth were alleviated somewhat after ankle fusion surgeries at the The Institute for Foot and Ankle Reconstruction at Mercy in Baltimore, Maryland.
Stephen married in 2002.
Svetlana’s mother Jelena died on November 2, 2005. Svetlana was not able to travel.
Svetlana was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in March of 2008, the family endured various crises with the help of a relative.
Eventually Svetlana was in remission, she continued gardening and following the world press, now with a DSL connection.
Svetlana refused any intervention for her heart trouble.
After Svetlana’s death, a minority of the art and furnishings was sold, but the balance of their possessions (including many of the items mentioned in these chapters as surviving) was removed and the house sold on June 30, 2018.