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From childhood, Natasha and her sister were afraid of gypsies. When the family had just moved into their new four-room apartment, gypsies often came to their building. One day, Natasha was home alone. The doorbell rang. She approached and asked, “Who is it?” Looking through the peephole, she saw three gypsy women. They told Natasha to open the door, saying they wanted to look at her red coat, which she wore at the time. They also said they knew her sister and her parents, and that she and her sister were twins. Natasha replied that she would not open the door for them. The gypsies began knocking on the door and pulling hard on the door handle. Natasha became frightened and crawled under the bed. She stayed there until her parents came home. The gypsies continued pounding on the door for a long time and shouted something.

Since ancient times, there have been cases where gypsies kidnapped only one of the twins, because it was believed that twins possessed a rare gift. The biblical story also points to a certain chosenness of twins, since one of the twins, Jacob, became the founder of the God-chosen people of Israel after he “wrestled with God.” In fascist concentration camps, cruel experiments were likewise carried out on twins in attempts to uncover their hidden abilities. The Bulgarian prophetess Vanga called twins “warriors of Light.” In Soviet times, it was forbidden to speak both about faith in God and about the hidden abilities of a person that had no relation to the material world. It is possible that Natasha’s parents noticed certain peculiarities in the behavior of their daughters but concealed them carefully so as not to fall under KGB persecution and to avoid ruining their children’s lives – and their own.

At the age of ten, Natasha went to a sanatorium in Yalta for vacation, where she caught a cold, and a severe exacerbation of bronchial asthma began. She was given many different injections that were prohibited for her due to her drug allergies. After one of the injections, she completely lost her vision, as if the light had been switched off. Only eight hours later did her sight begin to return little by little, but it never fully recovered – only about 50%.

A doctor who worked at the children’s sanatorium took Natasha to a certain clinic in Yalta, where the doctor’s grandfather worked. Natasha remembered the long corridors, with carpets everywhere – on the floors and on the walls. The most unusual thing was the absence of queues. Natasha’s eyes were examined for a long time using some sort of equipment. Most likely, it was a specialized medical facility for VIP members of the Soviet nomenklatura. After the examination, the old doctor told his granddaughter that he had taught her always to look closely at the follicles in the eyes. He said that Natasha had very large follicles and that such an organism possessed a strong self-defense mechanism – so strong that even pneumonia would pass without a single pill. But that did not make things easier for Natasha. Her vision was permanently damaged. From that year on, she was forced to wear glasses for reading and later permanent-wear contact lenses.