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Authors: Nikolai Gogol
The Night Before Christmas (6 page)
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By “German” we mean any foreigner, be it a French, Austro-Hungarian, or Swedish subjectâno matter, we will still call them “Germans” (Gogol).
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Parents and godparents of a child call each other
kum
(pronounced “koom”), or
kuma
, if she is a woman. The word indicates that they have become family through the ritual of baptism, without being related by blood.
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