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A  story with the wallop of a 19th century novel. When the Germans were  closing in on Kyiv, Sasha Goldberg took his fiancé, Hana Gehtman, and  her sister Dora, to a train headed east. As winter set in, Hana became  sick and died. Sasha kept writing her from the front line, and Dora  answered, pretending to be Hana.