Day: October 23, 2025

In a traffic jam, a little fortune-telling girl with unusual hands came up to me… When I saw the same hands on her father, I realized: that was exactly what would make the perfect birthday present for my husband!

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I forgot my husband’s milestone birthday. Completely, absolutely, irrevocably wiped the date from my mind. The blame lay with a mad, knock-you-off-your-feet work rhythm: an Indian delegation, crucial negotiations, endless interpreting from English into Russian and back again, twelve, sometimes fourteen hours a day. When you work as a high-level simultaneous interpreter, your brain slowly […]

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I gathered my husband’s entire family for dinner. I quietly served almost everyone a plate of dirty water, but for my mother-in-law there was a special dish

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They were sitting at my table. In my house. Though I had never truly felt it was mine. Not until this evening. My sister-in-law Sveta, adjusting her heavy gold earrings, surveyed the dining room with the air of an appraiser, as if gauging how much the oak wall panels might fetch. Her husband Vadim, the […]

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— How perfectly timed your inheritance is! My sister could really use an apartment right now,” the husband said with delight

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Ira noticed that Andrei’s phone had flashed for the third time in the last half hour. He didn’t even glance at the screen, mechanically chewing his mashed potatoes. She knew who was calling. Knew it with the same certainty you predict rain from the heavy clouds outside the window. “It’s Lyudmila,” she said, not asking. […]

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When she found out that I had quit my job and canceled all the money transfers, my mother-in-law showed up at six in the morning to “sort things out”

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Olga left the office for the last time, holding a small box with her personal belongings. The October wind tugged at her hair, and her heart felt astonishingly light. No regrets, no doubts. Only relief. Seven years of work at that company were behind her. Seven years during which every paycheck disappeared to the usual […]

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“I’m not throwing a wedding for two hundred guests, Pasha! You can feed your entire clan yourself, but I’m not giving a single penny for it! Either we just do a civil ceremony, or there will be no wedding at all!”

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“So, shall we settle on that Italian place with the veranda?” Anya lazily slid her finger across the laptop screen, scrolling through photos of a sun-drenched hall. “I think it’s perfect. Our parents, Katya and Igor, and us. Six people. Cozy, no pomp—just like we wanted.” She said it with a light, almost purring intonation, […]

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