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Helicopter trip as a New Year's gift

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Published 16 December, 2007, 16:11

Christmas and the New Year is a time when dreams come true, and for an orphan from the Russian Volga region it happened even earlier. The only gift he ever wanted was a trip in a helicopter…

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