The best choice Klavdiya ever made was escaping a bad marriage. Things started well: Every day after work, he would walk eight kilometers to see Klavdiya. He was a brilliant locksmith, a jack of all trades. But the people he helped would thank him with a glass of alcohol. “This,” Klavdiya says, “was his destruction.”
Klavdiya was brave enough to leave, and her second marriage to her husband Misha lasted 30 wonderful years. But today, she is all alone, living on just $4 a day.