Ukrainian Bridal Dressmaker Uncertain about Future Amid War

Andrea Lawrence
3 min readApr 5, 2022
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For the past few weeks, I have been messaging the seamstress who designed my wedding dress in 2020. She is now a Ukrainian refugee living in Moldova. She is struggling with trauma from her exodus from Ukraine and from watching news stories about her region getting bombed and attacked by Russians.

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Andrea Lawrence

Poet, creative writer, loves a bit of satire, food and wine journalist, relationship writer, interior design maven, Midwestern background.