“I didn’t marry you to become your mother’s servant, my dear. So deal with her problems and requests yourself, and I’ll go on living my own life.”

“I called you. Ten times. Mom’s waiting. We agreed you’d help her with the ceiling today.” Marina didn’t flinch. She slowly raised her head from her book, and in her eyes there was neither surprise nor guilt. Only calm, almost detached curiosity, as if the man standing in front of her wasn’t her husband but […]

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A young hospital orderly was asked to pretend to be a dying woman’s grandson. Among her photographs, he found one of his own mother.

Dima had wanted to be a doctor for as long as he could remember. But life, it seemed, was determined to test him. First came the sudden death of his father — a blow that shattered the ground beneath him. Then his mother’s health began to fail, worn down by nerves and the grind of […]

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