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– Klava, do you remember how Stepan woke up after he died? – Great-grandmother Vera was sitting at the kitchen table, talking passionately to her grandmother.

– Do you remember Stepan from Gurtovka?

– The one who died, Stepan, was in a lethargic sleep, then woke up.

When he woke up, he said: – Read the Gospel! He didn’t let the book out of his hands. He had a terrible vision in the afterlife, and before that, he drank a lot, remember?

– Yes, he changed a lot… – recalled grandmother Klavdia.

– And do you remember, Klava, about that well? – great-grandmother continued dreamily, – I still can’t get it out of my head.

– Why did the neighbor climb into our well and drown? Weren’t there enough wells, and the water was so good before that, I remember it like now: you scoop it up, and it’s cold and you drink it from your hand. Great-grandmother then long reminisced about her house in the village, which she sold; then about all the neighbors she lived next to. Grandmother Klavdia sat nearby, also remembering the house in the village and all those she remembered.