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Marianna enters the house, returning from work. Everything seems normal. Grandmother Klavdia is sewing on her sewing machine, hemming a curtain. Grandfather Anton is lying down watching TV. Great-grandmother sits on the bed, staring vacantly into space. But something is wrong. Empty, as if an unfamiliar thief sneaked in and stole the most precious thing. Marianna’s gaze falls on the wall. The clock… In place of the antique chiming clock, there are cheap modern plastic ones. She rushes into Great-grandmother Vera’s room:

– Where are the clocks?

Great-grandmother wearily, barely moving her lips:

– Amina came…

– Why did you give them away… Why…

Marianna felt as if some grace, some goodness, had left the house along with the clocks. A few days later, Great-grandmother passed away. She passed away easily, as if she had followed after the clocks.

Later, Grandmother Klavdia confessed that along with the clocks, Amina took all the family gold that Great-grandmother had hidden in her bed, intending to split it between me and Amina in the future.