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A Wind Untamed
Lada Karitskaya
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“Thank you for having come. When I was traveling to Saint Petersburg, I thought that only a few steps separated me from a happy future.”
“Some fashionable writer once said that Saint Petersburg can only be loved. There’s nothing to do here but love, he said. So I’ll love. I will love all its different guises: the wet and windy city of the winter, the dusty and humid city of the summer. At least this love will be reciprocated.”
“It’s time to learn to live in the now. Time to trust that tomorrow will come without fail, and then everything will begin anew.”
The return commute was also tough; the winning strategy was to sneak on to the bus shielded by someone else’s broad back. If for some reason that did not work, she could always stick out her hand holding the briefcase and let the crowd suck her in to the bus’s warm womb. The only tricky part was not letting go of the case. Right now commuting seemed like a bad dream. She had a week’s vacation ahead of her, and she didn’t care that it was unpaid.
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