Memories of Chernobyl “I don’t have any single memory, I was too young. It just became part of my life, always there. I remember the first visits to the doctor and being very sick. Maybe that is my first memory. I developed leukemia when I was four and fought it until I was fifteen. My parents say it was because I was playing in the garden when the cloud from Chernobyl passed overhead.” Mila Age on April 26, 1986: Four Residence in 1986: Belgorod