Lonely Place America. Novel-in-Stories
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Ирина Борисова. Lonely Place America. Novel-in-Stories
Part I. Problems with Electricity
How It All Started
Anna
Brave Russian Policeman
The Telephone Call from Sweden
Children and Parents
Dreams
Frank
Her Bad Fortune
His Old Red Cat
The Romantic Interview
The Island
Story about Masha
How Masha Found Her Husband
Problems with Electricity
Provincial Girls
A Soulmate
Russian Business
Two letters
You and We
Youth and Beauty
A Friend of Mine
The Beloved Woman
Our Hearts Do Not Take The Reality
Oh America…
Russian Classical Literature
The History Of Our Food
The Burden
Holiday Firework
Saint Petersburg
Part II. Lonely Place America
Our Friend Larry
The Last Romantic
John Vandenberg’s Odyssey
I am Listening
Lonely Place America
Rich People
Marina’s Letters
When We Become Poor
The Enchanted Kingdom
The Structure
Richard White, the Veteran of Vietnam
He Wrote to Me
Post-Spain Syndrome
One May Be, One May Seem
The Labyrinth of Stories
Painting and Embroidery
About Writing Letters
Liza
You Are Alone
A Night Taxi
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The idea of a marriage agency originally came to mind after my lady friend’s request to use my post office box for her sister Galya’s personal letters. Galya, a divorced lady of thirty seven with a sixteen year old son, lived together with her parents. Many people in Russia live with their parents because low wages do not allow them to rent apartments, let alone to buy them.
Living with her parents did not bother Galya much. On the contrary, she found it quite convenient. Her mother was more her son’s mother than she was herself. Her mother also cleaned the apartment, cooked and washed, so Galya was occupied only with her job but her evenings were free – and boring.
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That Finnish man saw her picture in our personals catalog. She was a thirty year old Russian girl of an average appearance. She wrote in her application form that most of all she wished to take care of somebody and to have children.
He invited her to visit him to Finland, she agreed. She came by train, he met her at the railway station. She had seen his picture while corresponding, still he turned out to be smaller and thinner and his eyes were frightened though he smiled.
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