Day: October 13, 2025

The autumn rain had been pouring for a third day, turning the village road into a churned-up mess of clay and fallen leaves.

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The autumn rain had been pouring for three days, turning the village road into a churned-up slurry of clay and fallen leaves. Anna was on her way back from the post office, wrapped in an old coat. In her bag lay a single letter from her sister in the city and a loaf of still-warm […]

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THE BLESSED ONE. I came to his parents’ doorstep with a suitcase and a child in my arms. His mother looked at us with suspicion, and his father said one sentence after which our lives changed forever.

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“Girl!” the midwife announced, lifting the newborn so Lusya could see her. “A beauty! Takes after her mother!” But Lusya, exhausted from labor, didn’t have time to really look at her daughter—an instant later the baby was handed off to another staffer. They examined the little one, carefully swaddled her, and carried her away. “He […]

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