“You’re just pretending to bury her,” the gravedigger heard a child’s voice. He touched and pulled back his hand.

Semyon Petrovich, or simply Petrovich — that’s what everyone who occasionally stopped by this forgotten-by-God place called him — with a strained groan plunged his shovel into the heavy, damp earth. Another day, like hundreds before. He had been working here, at the old village cemetery, for twenty years now, ever since the noisy and […]

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At the golden wedding anniversary, the husband declared: «I haven’t loved you all these 50 years.» But the wife’s reply made even the waiters weep…

Loud applause gradually died down, the glasses of champagne were half emptied, and the guests’ faces glowed with smiles. Fifty years of married life — a golden wedding anniversary. Around the long festive table gathered children, grandchildren, old family friends. They had all come to celebrate not just an anniversary, but a symbol of a […]

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