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Mama and my sister Galya were living in the Polesye near the little town of
Chernobyl . There , my Aunt Vera , who lived in Kiev , owned a small estate ,
Kopan , which Mama had undertaken to run . Anything to do with the land
delighted her .
Mama and my sister Galya were living in the Polesye near the little town of
Chernobyl . There , my Aunt Vera , who lived in Kiev , owned a small estate ,
Kopan , which Mama had undertaken to run . Anything to do with the land
delighted her .
Page 20
The day after I arrived , I was telling Galya and Mama about Moscow and the
revolution , when I looked out of the window and saw an old , hunchbacked little
monk , in a dusty habit and pointed hat , trudging from the woods towards the
house .
The day after I arrived , I was telling Galya and Mama about Moscow and the
revolution , when I looked out of the window and saw an old , hunchbacked little
monk , in a dusty habit and pointed hat , trudging from the woods towards the
house .
Page 89
Galya wrote : You promised Mama to come in spring , but there is still no sign of
you and we are losing hope . Mama has suddenly aged a lot . You wouldn ' t
recognise her . She keeps silent for days on end and at night , when she thinks I
am ...
Galya wrote : You promised Mama to come in spring , but there is still no sign of
you and we are losing hope . Mama has suddenly aged a lot . You wouldn ' t
recognise her . She keeps silent for days on end and at night , when she thinks I
am ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Harvill P., 1965 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2007 |
| ISBN | 0002717565, 9780002717564 |
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