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chernobyl who felt the effects of radiation. what's his story? and is his story one that he still chooses to stay? >> yeah, really all my pictures have a story behind it. but this is leonid who was a millman and he delivered top secret mail into the chernobyl zone for five years. and many people he worked with stopped working because they were afraid of the radiation but he felt like it was his patri patriotic duty to continue. by 1996 he started to have trouble with his legs and he's been in a wheelchair for more than 15 years. the interesting thing he doesn't have any regrets. he feels like he made the right choice. >> so his wife there, presumably his wife, right, is helping him there because of his limited mobility? >> he actually invited me to a birthday party and that was during his wife's birthday party. >> oh. >> and you can see in the

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