Vadim is lying to us,» Mom said as she placed the grocery bag on the chair. «I saw Katya with the children. It’s good that we live in the same district, otherwise I wouldn’t have known anything.» «Are the boys healthy?» Dad asked. «What did she say?» «They’re all right, but as for our boy, […]
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So, let’s agree amicably. You give me half of the apartment, and we part ways peacefully,» Stas placed his hands on the table and leaned forward. «Half of grandma’s apartment?» Anita raised her eyebrows. «Are you serious? In thirteen years of marriage, I’ve heard a lot of strange things from you, but this… This is […]
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I’ll have to stay with my mother for the next month,» Tatyana told her husband. «You understand that she will need help after her surgery.» «Okay,» Yuri agreed somewhat easily. «Nastya won’t be able to come to you all the time, she has her own family and job, so you’ll have to manage the household […]
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Mom, can Anya stay with you for a week? Tanya and I need to go to her city to sort out some documents. Maybe we’ll put the apartment up for sale while we’re there.» Nadezhda Ivanovna looked up from her tea cup and stared sternly at her son. «And why don’t you take her with […]
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A sudden phone ring shattered the morning silence, disrupting the peace of the bedroom. Marina, with great difficulty, forced herself to open her sticky eyes and reached for the nightstand. The name «Aunt Zina» lit up on the screen. Her heart involuntarily tightened – their last conversation had taken place more than a year ago, […]
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Frankly, I didn’t understand how my husband grew up in a family where his mother and sister exploited others, including him. Those women amazed me because my Stepa was nothing like them. And what happened recently only reinforced my opinion of his family. Stepa and I were no longer that young—it had been 7 years […]
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My husband looked at me with childlike directness, and I barely held back from slapping him across the face. All this time, my nerves had been stretched to the limit and finally snapped. When I was in college, my classmates and I often went to a small cozy bar where live music played on Fridays. […]
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Ritonya, sunshine, have some more salad,» Polina Kirillovna pushed the crystal bowl towards her daughter-in-law. «I made it especially for you, using my mom’s recipe.» Rita smiled mechanically and took a full spoonful. Her mother-in-law nodded in satisfaction and turned to the other guests: «Now, my dears, I have a surprise for everyone! In honor […]
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Mom, stop pressuring me, stop saying the same thing over and over! How much longer can this go on?,» Irina Andreevna’s son, Alexander, protested. «Do you even have any other topics of conversation? Anything at all, just as long as it’s not about Alina?» «Sash, stop defending her already!» the mother calmly replied to the […]
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Vita hadn’t left the apartment for three years, two months, and twelve days. She kept track—each morning, she would mark a cross in a thick black notebook. She also wrote down phrases from books and inserted magazine cutouts—pictures of beautiful places and sometimes actors, especially Tom Hardy. Actually, living without leaving home isn’t hard at […]
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