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[Alexandr Korol]

And imagine — at the same time, I’ve been watching “Smallville”, the series about young Superman. And in every episode, he’s always wearing either a red T-shirt with a blue shirt or jacket over it, or the other way around — a blue T-shirt with a red jacket on top. Those are his colors. And now I’m in the exact same situation. I bought a bunch of blue hoodies and T-shirts because earlier I was told I needed to understand the color blue. And now I’m exploring red — bought myself a bunch of red hoodies and shirts to try it out in practice. And it’s good that I happened to have my own red hoodies from my merch shop. So now I walk around in that hoodie, in red pants, in red hoodies. I observe how it affects me. So far, I see it’s having a positive, uplifting effect. This red color is really fascinating. And it’s so interesting how my mom reacted to all this — like suddenly we had this shared topic, and she’s really living it. And I think, “This is wild — what’s even happening?” I have a lot of relatives, and one of my grandfathers has worn red his whole life — red sweaters, red hoodies, red pants, even a red bag. Can you imagine how strange that looks? A grandfather with a red bag. What even is that? But I always associated him — like I told my mom — with some kind of Chinese vibe. He always reminded me of that, because he loved cooking Korean food, plus he’s very overweight, and he’s always collecting things — he has a whole bunch of figurines, all sorts of little items. He’s obsessed with all that Chinese stuff — like, you know, when those little Chinese gadgets first started appearing, like a flashlight with a screwdriver and five other things built in, and it also somehow flies — well, figuratively speaking. He was always the first to get those kinds of things, could somehow order or buy them before any marketplaces even existed. He’s a total gadget fanatic. And I’ve always associated him with that typical Chinese mass-produced aesthetic — plus all those figurines, plus all that Chinese-Asian vibe — and he’s always in red. Oh, and always covered in stones too, which is also fascinating — always wearing gemstones and jewelry, completely decked out in it, and he makes it all himself. That’s really curious. And I completely associate him with Santa Claus. Seriously, he always dresses like Santa. I told him, “Just grow out your beard,” and that’s it — he’ll turn into the real Santa, the real one, always in red. Just like how Santa is shown fully dressed in red — well, that’s exactly how he looks now. Just imagine how unusual this is: