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[Alexandr Korol]

I say: “Alright, I’ll tell my mom now.” And that was it — they sent me off to some hospital. And so when I was at this clinic, it turns out that I was already this magical one back then — meaning, this was the moment when I had already left school, exactly in those periods. This is precisely the same time when I left home — I mean, I had finished school, but hadn’t yet enrolled at university. This was the period of that summer when I had left home but hadn’t yet enrolled at university, or was enrolling. And back then there was a woman somewhere in the corridor, and she felt sick, fell down, and they all started reviving her. And I was sitting in the main office with the doctors, of whom there were a lot — and one was the head doctor, with whom I was sitting. And back then I, without restraining myself, simply said: “This woman is feeling such-and-such, and such-and-such is happening to her.” The doctor asks: “How did you understand this? Where did you get that from?” I say: “I don’t know — I simply feel all people. I feel how she is feeling right now.” Well — and the head doctor says: “Okay, I’ll check.”

A week later I come in, sit down with this head-doctor woman, and I see that all the attention of all the other doctors at the other desks is fixed intently on me. I feel that they are thinking about me. Well — that they are focused on me, that they have quieted down so as to listen in on the conversation.

The head doctor I was sitting at the desk with says:

— You did say everything just as it was. She had such-and-such going on there. How did you understand this?

I say:

— I don’t know. I just, for some reason, feel people. It started recently. Just imagine — I was standing in a queue, and a woman was breathing heavily, she had a bad heart, and I was suffocating, thinking I was going to die, and that my heart was stopping. And then I understood that it was an old lady standing in the queue.