That means be quiet in the dialect of Russian both sides of my family spoke. It also represents one of my biggest life challenges.
The joke in the family was that I didn't start talking until I was 3 years old, and I've barely stopped since. That wry observation also gave rise to one of my dear companion's best teases of me.
He bet me that I couldn't keep quiet for 5 minutes. He claimed and still claims that at about the 3-minute mark the veins in my neck were standing out.
Need I say that the 3-minute mark was as far as I got?
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