Falls Church Resident Discusses Once Being Famous in His Home Country

Safarsho Merobshoev, once an actor and executive director of the National Circus of Tajikistan, tells the Washington Post what it was like to go from having a driver in Dushanbe to flipping burgers at a McDonald’s, delivering pizzas in Arlington County and separating recycled trash on a night shift.

“I go from seeing my dad with a driver to seeing him sitting on a carpet roll with a truck,” said his son Seeno, 31, a producer for C-SPAN.

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