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Since the early childhood Mom was the most important person in Solnishko’s life. In the presence of Mom other people were unimportant. Every time, when Mom had to go for her business, bilateral talks used to begin concerning cancellation of her jobs and reduction of terms of her absence. All the arguments were used: requests, persuasions, tears.

– Please, don’t leave, Mom! I feel so bad without you, – begged the girl, following around Mom, who was going to work.

– Solnishko, I have a lot of work to do. I’ll return to you when I finish, – Mom answered in a gentle voice by patting her on the head and kissing. – For now until then you should stay with Granny.

– Let Granny work and you stay with me, – Solnishko objected.

– Granny is busy too. But she came, in order to be with you. I’ll soon return and we’ll play together, – Mom continued patiently.

– No, I don’t want to stay with Granny, don’t leave, please, Mom, – the girl begged all in tears.

But when Mom closed the door behind her, everything began to be fine. The child instantly switched to the one of the relatives who had stayed with her and even called them Mom, till she came back from work. At the beginning it surprised everyone but gradually they got used to it and perceived it to be a game, with the help of which the child didn’t want to accept the absence of her Mom.

Solnishko communicated differently with each of the members of the large close-knit family, which was united by Solnishko in the main. She thought up different games and thus the child lived many lives during the day.

When Granny put Solnishko to bed, the girl asked to tell her the story about Lindagul, the youngest and the most favorite daughter of Nadir, the Persian shah. Though Solnishko knew that story by heart, nevertheless, every time she asked Granny to read and then also to tell it. And when Granny, being already half asleep and tired, tried somehow to shorten the story, no matter how much tired and sleepy, the girl immediately was cheered up and began to correct Granny by reproaching her for being forgetful:

– No, it isn’t so, Granny. You confused everything again. You’re such a mixer.

What is interesting, that she didn’t ask anyone else to read that story. The girl had her favorite fairy tales with Mom as well as the other Granny however nobody was allowed to read or tell them. Common was only that during all phases of the girl’s life there was always some fairy tale character, which was her friend and to which she trusted all her secrets. Solnishko shared a meal with her friend, walked with her friend, went to kindergarten, played music, went to the gym, to the ice rink, skied, listened to fairy tales, played, even performed concerts and slept. At the beginning they were a dog, a hare, a wolf, a fox, the most favorite characters from cartoons and some entertaining stories. Moreover, if the corresponding teddy toys were turned into the analogues of the animals, the close friends, then Samodelkin was the invisible friend of the girl for a long time. The child was so absorbed by the character that she talked with him, introduced him to her guests, as well as asked for advice. Samodelkin began to be the most important one at home. He participated in all games. Books were read about adventures of Samodelkin and his friends, the same audio recordings were listened to, even the improvisations were exclusively on the theme “Samodelkin and his company”.

When the family had a dinner, cutlery was put also for Samodelkin. Before going to bed, the girl invited Samodelkin to the bathroom to wash up and to brush teeth. When she listened to the audio recordings she asked not to disturb her and Samodelkin.

More and more the living space was given to Samodelkin. That was, to put it mildly, a difficult period in the life of the family, the members of which had to learn to live in conditions of the constant invisible presence of Samodelkin.

But thank God everything in life passes and one day Samodelkin, Karandash2, Nastenka, Kletochka, Tigrasha, pirats Bulbul and Dirka and the other characters appeared in the past.

The very clever rat Remy became Solnishko’s new favorite hero. Solnishko had watched the cartoon “Ratatouille” for many times and each time she admired the courage, agility and resourcefulness of the rat. The girl was very picky about food. Remy also was fond of culinary delights. Solnishko compared her gastronomic tastes with the ones of Remy. She even found something in common which attracted the rat to her much more. Meanwhile Granny even couldn’t imagine that a rat could live in the house, especially in the kitchen: that it could take participation in cooking, could appear in the jar of cereals and in the pan, could sleep in the cover of the sweeper. And most importantly somebody can admire it.

During a regular visit to the shop “Detskiy Mir3” Granny and Solnishko took toys – sea inhabitants: a medusa, a seahorse, a starfish, an octopus, a stingray, as well as a sea turtle. The toys were bright, nice and unusual. According to the instruction, they grew in size each time they were immersed in water. That is why Granny and Solnishko decided to check whether it was really so. Suddenly the girl saw a big fatty and pitch black rat very similar to Remy. Her eyes lit up and she rushed to the rat with a scream “Remy” by dropping all the chosen toys.