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Valery Yuabov. Everything Begins In Childhood
Chapter 1. 6 Korotky Lane (Short Lane)
Chapter 2. Hospital
Chapter 3. Old Town
Chapter 4. A Little Mouse from a Little Hole
Chapter 5. Happy Birthday, Little Redhead!
Chapter 6. “Earthquake, earthquake!”
Chapter 7. Coal
Chapter 8. A Very Good Day
Chapter 9. Macaroni
Chapter 10. We shouldn’t live like this any longer
Chapter 11. We have moved!!!
Chapter 12. Guncha
Chapter 13. “Our Neighbor Is a Greek Woman…”
Chapter 14. The First School Bell
Chapter 15. The Dugout
Chapter 16. Dog Eaters
Chapter 17. A Gulp of Life
Chapter 18. With a Forelock
Chapter 19. The Residents of Our Building Gossip, Laugh and Cry
Chapter 20. We Don’t Give a … Spit
Chapter 21. Sunday Delights
Chapter 22. Once in the Evening
Chapter 23. My Father Is Also a Teacher
Chapter 24. In the Old House
Chapter 25. “Just Look at Her!”
Chapter 26. The Maybug
Chapter 27. The Best Place in the City of Tashkent
Chapter 28. Kupik
Chapter 29. The New Nickname
Chapter 30. Kosher Chickens
Chapter 31. The Battle Near the Old Fortress
Chapter 32. A Wedding Is a Serious Affair
Chapter 33. The Long-Awaited Day
Chapter 34. Hammom
Chapter 35. The Cousins
Chapter 36. We’ll Go Visit Grandpa Tomorrow
Chapter 37. Little Musicians and GooPoo
Chapter 38. The Cold Morning
Chapter 39. Parting with Grandpa Hanan
Chapter 40. “Just Let Him Try It!”
Chapter 41. How the Bottle Was Buried
Chapter 42. The Order
Chapter 43. The Officer’s Son
Chapter 44. “Dev Borin”
Chapter 45. Dayenu!
Chapter 46. Little Jew
Chapter 47. Boolk-Boolk, or the Day of Delicious Food
Chapter 48. Tadpoles
Chapter 49. Soldier’s Lake
Chapter 50. The Teke Carpet and Other Treasures
Chapter 51. A Merry Night Under the Apricot Tree
Chapter 52. It’s Sweeter from Someone Else’s Tree
Chapter 53. “To Keep You Apart…”
Chapter 54. “A Spring by the Name of Larisa”
Chapter 55. “Child in Time” and Children of Our Time
Chapter 56. The Torture
Chapter 57. The Star of David
Chapter 58. Our Friends the Musheyevs
Chapter 59. Father and Daughter
Chapter 60. Something Has Changed
Chapter 61. Hebrew Lessons
Chapter 62. Farewell to My Childhood
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"Vale-e-ya-a!" I heard as I went out into the courtyard. I could see my two-year-old cousin Yura's little round face in a window across the yard. Although he was standing on his tiptoes on the windowsill, his head hardly reached the fortochka (a small hinged windowpane in the upper corner of the window). He couldn’t yet pronounce the letter “r” so he when he said my name “Valera,” it came out rather comically as “Valeya.”
"Vale-e-ya-a, my mama is beating me up!" he shouted mournfully.
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It was pitch dark as the sparse streetlights flickered dimly. There was that special stillness that one felt only at night. It was intensified by the rustling of leaves, the peaceful buzz of cicadas, and the sounds made by the tires of rare passing cars.
The Turkmen Bazaar was on the other side of the streetcar track. The huge market, which stretched for hundreds of meters, was silent now. It would come back to life at sunrise.
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