Returning from a business trip, Liliya decided to stop by the local deli located on the ground floor of her apartment building. She planned to buy something ready-made for dinner. It was already close to seven in the evening, and Liliya realized she had no time to cook, nor did she want to stand at […]
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Maxim, sorry for the late call, but I think someone broke into your apartment. This is Tatyana, your neighbor across the hall. You gave me your number before you left, just in case of a fire, flood, or other disasters… Igor told me a few days ago that it seemed like your door slammed, I […]
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Dear, I’ve left!” “Wait, did you forget anything? Did you take food for the road?” Veronica asked caringly. “Of course. I’m not going to go hungry for hours.” “Call me when you get there.” “Yes, of course,” Igor kissed his wife on the cheek and set off. Veronica and Igor had been married for over […]
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And you just left everything to them?” Katya saw her friend looking at her with an uncomprehending gaze. “You won’t go to the notary and fight for your rights? Katya, what are you thinking?” Katya shrugged. “Natulchik, what rights? Seryozha and I weren’t married. So nothing belongs to me,” Katya sighed. “Nothing.” “But you fixed […]
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Ivan met Alena at a volunteer center. However, he wasn’t there to help the disadvantaged, but to look for a girlfriend for a relationship. A friend persuaded him to this odd action. “If a girl volunteers and carries heavy bags of food for elderly strangers on her own, she will do everything and even more […]
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Really?” Nikita perked up. He had been waiting for this day, saving up for his dream. He knew his mom was in a tough financial situation: there had been massive layoffs at work, and only Larisa was retained because she was raising her son alone. Nikita’s father had died a few years ago. The survivor’s […]
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Does the surgery need to be done?” Konstantin looked at his wife. Ulyana was agitated and unsure of what to do. On one hand, the situation required an immediate decision, but on the other, she was scared to leave her husband and mother-in-law. “Maybe postpone it? For a month or two?” “You know I’ve been […]
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Sorry for coming so late, but we have nowhere else to go. -This is your home now too,” said his wife’s best friend, blushing, holding her son in her arms, and confidently stepping in. The husband shamefully lowered his eyes. Svetlana was holding her little son, dragging a big suitcase into the hallway. “Of course, […]
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Christina knocked on the familiar door on the third floor. The doorbell had long been out of order, but her mother-in-law, Anna Petrovna, was always sensitive to knocks—she said that in their old house, sounds carried especially loudly. Indeed, it wasn’t even a minute before shuffling footsteps were heard. “Kristinushka! What brings you here?” Anna […]
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Alina sat in the kitchen, feverishly swallowing bitter, long-cold and tasteless coffee, quietly crying. The children were sound asleep in their cribs, having interesting dreams and snuffling with their little noses, while she couldn’t fall asleep at all. Everything that had happened had so drained her that tears simply rolled down without stopping, out of […]
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