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mentions that "the sources of nation's memory, as it seemed, filled up and having run dry long ago, started to flow amazingly." He also warns that "the old ladies, our purest source of folk songs, become rarer and rarer with each day". Barons also points at the
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banknote prior to the Lat being replaced by the Euro in 2014, his being the only human face of an actual person on modern
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