SHE DIDN’T SPEAK ENGLISH, BUT HER VOICE NOTES CHANGED EVERYTHING

When I first saw Kateryna’s profile, I almost scrolled past. The reason was simple and, I thought, insurmountable: her bio was entirely in Ukrainian. I speak exactly zero words of Ukrainian, and the idea of building a connection through clumsy translations seemed exhausting. But there was something in her smile—a genuine, unposed warmth—that