Pay the bill at the café yourselves; we didn’t like anything,” the parents declared as they rose from the table.

Svetlana blushed with shame; her temples began to throb, and her palms grew damp. She realized her husband had been right: gathering all the relatives around one table was a bad idea. They should have celebrated at home, in a family way, but now it was too late, and she had to deal with her […]

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— You threw a buffet here for the relatives on my money? Now get out of my kitchen, — the wife had been tolerating freeloaders for too long.

Elena was rubbing her hands with antiseptic after finishing the last session of therapeutic massage. The patient — an elderly woman suffering from sciatica — nodded gratefully while paying for the procedure. Elena carefully folded the money into her wallet. Every bill counted: tomorrow she needed to buy groceries, the day after — pay for […]

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