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... everything was finished , absolutely everything . It was much later that I understood that life had taken away from me , for some unknown reason , what might have been happiness . The next day Lisa and I went to Simferopol . It was ...
... everything was finished , absolutely everything . It was much later that I understood that life had taken away from me , for some unknown reason , what might have been happiness . The next day Lisa and I went to Simferopol . It was ...
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... everything turned dark before our eyes . We lay in the lukewarm water for a long time . The sky seemed filled with smoke . Enormous black puffs moved behind it , like petrified cotton . These were the storm clouds seen through the smoke ...
... everything turned dark before our eyes . We lay in the lukewarm water for a long time . The sky seemed filled with smoke . Enormous black puffs moved behind it , like petrified cotton . These were the storm clouds seen through the smoke ...
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... everything as if through sleep . I did not know then nor can I remember now whether the baby came out quickly . I remember only the feel of little shoulders . It must have been his shoulders . I pressed the palms of my hands around them ...
... everything as if through sleep . I did not know then nor can I remember now whether the baby came out quickly . I remember only the feel of little shoulders . It must have been his shoulders . I pressed the palms of my hands around them ...
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The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
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