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While Alëna Wedderburn currently calls New York City home, the Big Apple couldn’t be more different than her hometown. Instead of city streets lined with towering skyscrapers, Yakutia, Russia, was a small town that lacked simple amenities like paved roads and running water. During the long winters—when the temperature would plummet to 60 below zero—Wedderburn and her siblings walked to school. During the painfully short summers they harvested fruits and