Quote Originally Posted by Полуношник
If the plot of your book is placed to the present time, Dmitri may be don't have memories about endless Christmas - New Year holidays.
Good point... I have him as no older than 23. So he would have been born in say 1984 or later?

And if I understand from all the comments about accents, he would have needed to leave Russia by the time he was about 7 to 9 to be able to really speak English without a Russian accent (unless someone can prove me wrong about that one). So that would put him leaving there at 1991 to 1993. To have the story be the way I REALLY wanted it, he would have lived there until he was a teenager and have gone through some VERY intensive dialogue/speech/diction to get rid of the accent. But.... I am not certain that even this would accomplish getting rid of "your" accent and make y'all ever truly sound American. It appears once you have reached your teenaged years, it is hard to get rid of the Russian accent. And for his character, for what I am trying to accomplish, it is fine that he IS Russian and can speak Russian and has certain Russian traits that will come out in time... the accent thing while speaking English, is sort of a deal breaker.