Практикум по синхронному переводу с русского языка на английский

В этом плане я вся в папу. Он был адмиралом американских
ВМС, а когда ушел в отставку, первым делом сжег свою форму.
Он сказал: «А что ей в шкафу пылиться? Я знаю, что адмирал,
что сделал много для страны, и мне не нужен пиджак с погона­
ми, чтобы напоминать о том, кто я есть и кем я был». Так и я.
Короче говоря, я не смотрю свои старые фильмы. Хотя... Рань­
ше смотрела себя на экране и думала, что все сыграно ужасно
неправильно. А теперь я себе нравлюсь.

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Viktoria Fyodorova came to/arrived in Moscow. She went to see/visited her old friends, strolled about/walked around a city that is now totally foreign to her/a city she no longer knows, visited/saw/went to her mother's grave. The daughter of a movie star of the 30s and 40s and of an American officer (he paid for his love with exile from the "friendly" USSR, and she — with prison and exile), and herself a movie star of the 70s, she has come back to Russia/her native land/home after a quarter of a century/25 years/in America.

65535. 
       You've come back from nowhere/You've come back from being a
       nonperson — for many years absolutely nothing was known about
       you/you didn't exist in Russia. How do you feel now?
       

65535. 
       It feels strange/it's odd/something funny is happening. I call up
       someone whom I haven't spoken to/with whom I've had no
       contact/whom I haven't talked to/for 25 years, and I hear: "Vika,
       hi/hello, how are things/what's up?" Just like I never left/It's as though
       I never left. It's as though we've lost our sense of time. Other say, "One
       fine day you just weren't there/were gone/just upped and left. You
       disappeared, as though you'd never existed." In fact that disappearance