At my husband’s anniversary celebration, my mother-in-law proudly announced: “Son, this is a gift from your father and me — the keys to a house. We are giving them only to you, so that this poor country bumpkin and her child from a previous marriage get nothing after the divorce.” The room fell into a […]
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Lena rushed out of the building, casting an anxious glance at her watch. “God, I’m late!” She hurried toward the metro. “Just what I needed—to be late for dinner with Pasha’s parents!” Recently, she and Pavel had made an important decision—to get married. But the wedding hadn’t happened yet. Lena was ready to just live […]
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Why is my balance still empty?!” Lydia Pavlovna exclaimed indignantly as she burst into the bedroom. Her son, Sergey, didn’t notice his mother’s arrival because he was wearing headphones, but Ira flinched and dropped the vase she was dusting under. “Irina! Where’s the money?” “Serzha! Serezhenka!” Lydia Pavlovna began shaking her son by the shoulders, […]
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Alice and Kirill had been married for twenty-five years. They had two sons. For their silver wedding anniversary, Alice gave her husband a designer silver ring from a limited edition jewelry collection, and he gave her a silver spoon. Alice was a little upset by such a gift but did not show it. “You shouldn’t […]
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