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Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?
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need a whole weekend and he replied that yes--he did." She shook her head. "On fire, I tell you," she whispered. "He became impossible to refuse, to refute, to resist. And so . . . " Alexander remembered Anthony from that summer before he left for West Point sitting alone outside on the moon deck, strumming his guitar, nearly naked in the Arizona 115-degree heat, singing "Ochi Chernye" over and over. Alexander and Tatiana had said quietly t..
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She is so good, your wife." "Yes," said Alexander. "So fresh and young. So lovely to look at." "Yes," said Alexander, closing his eyes. "And she doesn't yell at you." "No. Though I reckon she sometimes wants to." "Oh, to have such restraint in my Bessie. She used to be a fine woman. And the girl was such a loving girl." More drink, more smoke. "But have you noticed since coming back," said Nick, "that there are things that women just don't ..
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Someday Tatiana must tell Alexander how glad she is that her sister Dasha did not die without once feeling what it was like to love. Alexander. Here he is, before he was Tatiana's, at the age of twenty, getting his medal of valor for bringing back Yuri Stepanov during the 1940 Winter War. Alexander is in his dress Soviet uniform, snug against his body, his stance at-ease and his hand up to his temple in teasing salute. There is a gleaming s..
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