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Oksana Piaseckyj’s parents were just two of the roughly 80,000 Ukrainians who spent years in refugee camps after World War II before securing sponsors to bring them to the United States.

But in the parish hall of South Florida’s only Ukrainian Catholic Church, Piaseckyj didn’t want to talk about her history or the recent bloody protests in the Ukraine. Instead, she wanted to show off the church’s pysanky, the intricately designed, jewel-toned Easter eggs that symbolize Ukrainian folk art.

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