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Armin was 14 and hooked to MTV when the war in Bosnia started, leaving his hometown of Tuzla without heat and electricity for a winter, and him with a lot of shattered dreams. There was no skiing at the nearby resort of Vlasic that winter. Yugoslav Army and Serb insurgents set up the artillery there to shell the city.
Three years later, with the Dayton peace agreement signed, Tuzla became home to the US portion of the UN peacekeeping forces. Entrepreneurial, Armin quit school and started translating for peacekeepers, earning suddenly more money than his parents, and honing up his English.
Eventually, he ended up in New York city working for the UN 9-5. Then he realized that, due to events outside of his control, he did not have much fun in the past decade. This year he learned how to snowboard, and, after just three tries, color slipped back to his habitually easel-pad pale face. He was so excited that he bought the entire used equipment from one of his co-workers
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RACCOON, Inc., (map and driving directions)
43-32 22nd Street, Suite (buzzer) 301 in
Long Island City, between 43th and 44th Avenue
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