Natasha stroked the wooden wall with her palm, feeling the roughness of the old log. This house had witnessed her first steps, first tears, and first joys. A strong, albeit old, village house with a carved porch and a small but well-kept garden had been her sanctuary since childhood. After the death of her grandmother […]
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Marina and Fyodor were both doctors at the same hospital, loving parents to their five-year-old son, Yura. Their family seemed strong, and their relationship stable. But fate had other plans. Fyodor began to notice a young woman — the daughter of the hospital’s chief physician. She was beautiful, well-connected, and had an influential father… and, […]
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How wonderfully life is arranged! Yulia was born in this city; it was here that her childhood unfolded. It had been somewhat clouded by her parents’ divorce, and yet the girl had felt happy. Her relationship with her father was good, and her mother, Natalya, did everything for her daughter’s comfort. Yulia remembered that she […]
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The doorbell broke the silence, persistent and demanding. Lyudmila Nikolaevna set the pot on the stove, wiped her hands on the old kitchen towel, and went to the door. It was getting dark outside. She had just come back from work, her back ached, and her head too. She longed for silence, a hot bath, […]
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They had been married for twenty years. Their twin sons, Egor and Matvei, enrolled in a military academy, and for the first time in many years, they were alone. And with that, all excuses for her husband ran out. When they had first married, her husband used to call her «swallow» and would slip little […]
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The white tiles on the ceiling blurred in front of her eyes as if they had been washed away by water. The light was too harsh—like a spotlight shining directly in her face. Rita tried to move, but her body didn’t respond. Her eyelids felt incredibly heavy, like curtains made of lead. She blinked—once, twice, […]
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