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Currently (according to estimates by non-governmental organizations) there are about 15,000 of us here, including the urban area and the surrounding rural properties... But at the end of the last century we were about 35,000... Many young people left in search of better life expectations. ..

ha yes, that makes the world a good little town. After spending 50 years in the same place you met this man and him as if life didn't want you to meet