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[Alexandr Korol]

I can’t invite you or anyone over. But soon I’ll have a house, and I can invite everyone over. What’s your mother’s name? Olga? Princess Olga, Princess Olga. And you are Nevsky, Alexander Nevsky, Alexander Nevsky.

And she almost cries and says:

– Everyone has been waiting for you. Everyone was waiting for you. People are waiting for you. You need to get to know the church.
– If you don’t know, I’ve actually been going to churches for the past month. I sketch all these places of power.
– No, you didn’t understand, you need to get to know the church from the inside.
– Alright, as you say.

And then I realized that what she said about the apartment and the car, she was talking about me. I had a red car, and I lived on the 12th floor in a small apartment, then I lived in a house. As for “we know how to have fun,” I think she meant that when something happens or something occurs, she is above all that. Well, figuratively speaking, everything is as it should be, and it should be that way. That’s how I understood it then and still do now. Figuratively speaking, if someone leaves you, a guy, a girl, you’re upset, but I think, “Well, that’s how it should be.” For example, the phone breaks, well, that money I wanted to spend on something, maybe I shouldn’t be spending it on that, and now I have to spend it on the phone again, or maybe today I should be without a phone. So, you look at everything as a series of circumstances that all come from God, and it should be this way, and it’s all kind of cool. If you tear your shirt, well, then it’s time to change it. So, even when God rips your shirt, it’s only to make you change it. And when you need something, God will give it to you, and when it’s time, He will take it away. And you kind of treat it carefully, like you’re dancing with nature. And they all, these messengers, always dance along. So, she probably meant that “having fun” means to take all situations – both good and bad – more lightly and simply. That is, when you’re appointed to a position, you shouldn’t get arrogant and have a blast, but simply think, “Well, it had to be this way,” that should be your attitude, without the burst of this kind of clouded thinking. And likewise, when you’re demoted or your job changes unexpectedly, you should take it as,