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To: bart13 who wrote (95902)10/27/2012 7:02:29 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (2) of 218753
 
Her formative years have influence in her way of thinking. When you suffer such blows at the age of 12-13 years this impacts on the way you see the world.

The subsequent October Revolution and the rule of the Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin disrupted the comfortable life the family had previously enjoyed. Her father’s pharmacy business was confiscated and the family displaced.
en.wikipedia.org

Then she suffered cultural shock:

Arrival in America
In the fall of 1925, Rand was granted a visa to visit American relatives. Rand was so impressed with the skyline of Manhattan upon her arrival in New York Harbor that she cried what she later called "tears of splendor". [22]

This second factor have a huge impact on her way of seeing the world.
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