However. unlike other young peoplethey have not been allowed to live happily ever after. In fact. they have. for the most part. lived apart for the almost 2 years they have been married. Svethlana has applied three times to emigrate so that she may join her husband in Michigan. Her first application. shortly after their marriage. was denied on November 23. 1984 as "not in the Soviet interest." Her second application. May 15. 1985. was denied 2 months later. no explanation was given. Her third application was made on January 24. 1986. and she has yet to receive a response. At this very moment. Keith. after first being denied a visitors visa. is now visiting Svethlana in Moscow. Their story is only one of many families who must endure life as pawns of the Soviet system. The numbers of divided families (U.S./.U.S.S.R.) when compared to the huge populations in our two countries do not seem like an overwhelming problem.
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