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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota ( WCCO ) -- As a child, she fled Ukraine during a war. Now at the age of 92, a Minneapolis woman is looking to return to her homeland and into another war.

Nadia Pishko's childhood was about survival. Growing up in Lviv, Ukraine, she experienced mass starvation in the 1930s. And during World War II, she and her family fled the country as the Germans and Russians closed in. But her heart never left her homeland.

"How do you say it? The door never closed. The door never closed," said Nadia Pishko.

She eventually made her way to Minneapolis where she and her husband raised four kids. Now, at the age of 92, she's looking to return to Ukraine.

"I want to go and stay there before I die," said Nadia Pishko.

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