“— The anniversary celebration is off! I’m not going to wait on your relatives — let your dear mother run around and serve them herself!”

— Anniversary is canceled! I will not cater to your family, let the mother-in-law run herself! Marina dropped heavy food bags on the floor and leaned her back against the cool hallway wall. Her whiskeys were tapping, her legs were buzzing, as if she had just run a marathon, instead of finishing a full shift […]

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“I took you in, an orphan, and now I’m stuck carrying you like a curse,” Yulka would hear — but she still believed that one day she would have a real family.

«I sheltered you, orphan, now I pull you like a cursed one,» Yulka heard, but believed: she will have a real family. Yulka knew that she had no family. Aunt Tanya, who raised her from childhood, never tried to become a mother to her and didn’t even hide that the girl was stranger to her. […]

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