Lena stood in front of the crooked little house, clutching a crumpled piece of paper with the address in her hand. The wind tickled her neck, ruffling her light jacket, and inside she felt empty—like the windows of this abandoned dwelling. Twenty years had passed inside the walls of an orphanage, and now she was […]
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Ekaterina slipped off her work sneakers and breathed a sigh of relief. After ten hours of hard work in the sewing workshop, her back ached, and her fingers tingled from constant machine work. The room was stuffy — orders for school uniforms kept pouring in one after another, and the seamstresses had to stay late. […]
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Raisa nervously paced from one corner of the room to another — her heart felt unbearably heavy, as if everything inside her had been turned upside down. Yesterday she had been at the notary’s office… And now she couldn’t understand what was happening to her. Her father had died. The very same father she hadn’t […]
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Andrey pushed the apartment door open with his shoulder since his hands were full. In one hand — a briefcase, in the other — a box with a new smartphone he had bought on the way home. Inside, everything tightened with a familiar feeling of guilt, but he forced himself to straighten his shoulders. Successful […]
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Nelly, no longer wanting to depend on others, asked the driver to get out of the car and took the wheel herself. She had always believed that a change of activity was the best remedy for stress. And today had been filled with so many emotions that it could have lasted a whole week. The […]
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Lida had felt since childhood that her life would be different — not like everyone else’s. What happened long ago left a deep mark on her — both literally and metaphorically. As a child, she survived a terrible accident that changed everything: her face was covered with burn scars, and her mother’s life became a […]
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— Daughter, don’t worry about me. Right now, you must not quarrel with your father. Please, don’t try to defend me.” Julia remembered these words from her mother forever. She was only fourteen then, and in her young heart, it felt as if the world had collapsed overnight. Her mother’s words sounded like a warning, […]
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When Sergey died in a car accident, Marina didn’t immediately realize what had happened. She got a call from the hospital telling her to come. Then there were blurry hours of waiting in the corridor, a doctor with downcast eyes, formalities that had to be observed. And her son Kirill — a three-year-old boy who […]
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Lyubov Ivanovna stood in front of her daughter-in-law’s apartment door, adjusting the collar of her expensive coat and putting on an expression of noble grief. Her eyes, carefully outlined with eyeliner, shone with the determination of a person used to getting her way at any cost. Sixty-three years of life had taught her many things, […]
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Lera was returning home after a date, lost in heavy thoughts. She had not expected Ivan to propose marriage today of all days. His action had thrown her off balance — she still couldn’t give him a clear answer. Her heart tightened with anxiety: what if she made a mistake again? The wounds from her […]
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