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why does eddie kiss his mom like a girlfriend or wife?


why does eddie kiss his mom like a girlfriend or wife? discuss

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Don't know for sure, but my guess is that it is because Eddy's family was from the Ukraine. Perhaps in the Ukraine as in Russia that is the custom, including with men.

As a young boy I remember the Soviet Premier Khruschev congratulating the first Russian cosmonaut (astronaut) Yuri Gagarin in a news clip. He embraced him and to my great surprise then kissed him right on the mouth.

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I don't about that thing with Gagarin, but I only see in American movies how parents almost always kiss their children in mouth! I'm from Serbia, an orthodox, like people in Russia, and most in Ukraine, and we certainly don't greet each other with mouth-to-mouth kissing. You can only see that when it's guy and girl (rarely girl and girl ;)). We sometimes kiss each other in cheek, like in West, but three times instead of two.

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