Valery Panyushkin: “Wake up together”

“She is such a beauty with shimmering green eyes that only brunettes have. Even despite leukemia, chemotherapy, bone marrow transplant and transplant rejection, she is still a beauty.

And he is so big, round, clumsy, looks at her with loving eyes, still does not understand how by miracle he could get such a treasure, and even more so does not understand how such a treasure can be lost - but he does.

And when she tells me about her misadventures, when it comes to how she weaned her eight-month-old son because she fell ill with blood cancer, when tears well up in her eyes and her voice begins to tremble, he gets up and hugs her. So gentle, as if she were made of crystal."