The Lovers

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Юлия Добровольская. The Lovers

Dina

The Final Exam

The First Life Lesson

Konstantin Konstantinovich Kolotozashvili

On Beauty

On Family and Love

The Student Dorms

Neighbors

Rimma

The First Date

Later in the Evening

Spring Rain

Home

Mom

A Little More About Mom

Dina’s Temptation

The Return

Relatives

In the Dark

The Meeting

New Boundaries

New Feelings

New Experiences

Kostya

The Ghost of the Mistress Bird

Mother

Brother

The War

After the War

An Unexpected Twist

The Lovers

The Telegram

Thirty Years Ago

Gosha

The Little Knight

Anya

The Year of the Eclipse

Vera

The Return of the Prodigal Son

An Unexpected Twist

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Dina Turbina stepped out of the university doors into an overcast day.

One could say that the colors surrounding her, washed out by the fog and the feeble rains of the past few days, and inspiring autumnal sadness, did not match her mood at all, which was upbeat and focused, as if ready to break out into song. But Dina didn’t believe in such a thing as bad or good weather. She accepted without any judgment both the bleak days with their faded colors, and the bright sun in a blue sky, without classifying them as “good” and “bad,” or “sad” and “happy.” For Dina, the world was always wonderful and surprising, and each kind of weather had its own charm. Certainly, her mood was not always so uplifted, sometimes it went downwards, but the weather had absolutely nothing to do with it. Dina was more likely to make her surroundings match her mood!

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“We have ten minutes to go to the snack bar. Would you like anything to eat?” he asked.

“No, thank you, I’m full,” replied Dina. “But if you’d like…”

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