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Sofiya Pasternack |

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Sofiya Pasternack: Hi, I am Sofiya Pasternack. And my name is kind of long. I know that Pasternack is.... There's just a whole lot of letters in that. But it's all phonetic. It's okay. You can get through it. And it is a Ukrainian name from Ukraine, which is a country that's kind of near Russia. And it means parsnip farmer. So if you were a Pasternack, you farmed parsnips. Which are kind of like turnips. They are these root vegetables and you know what? I don't like them very much. So maybe I'm not the best Pasternack. And my first name, everybody misspells it. It's okay. It has an extra Y in it for some reason. That's okay. So that's my name. Pretty easy. Not too scary. It just looks scary, but it's not, I don't think.

And if you'd know who Boris Pasternak was, he wrote some very famous books.
And, as far as I'm aware, we're not related. So there's that answer for the people who were curious.

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