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• Oh Alexander," she said, "what do you want from me..." "Everything!" he whispered fiercely.

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  Want, Said, Tatiana Metanova

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• Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top of you with this scourge marks, and you, who used to love me, who was sympathized, internalized, normalized everything, you are not allowed to turn away from me....this is what I am going to look like until the day I die. I can't get any peace from you ever unless you find away to make peace with this. Make peace with me. Or let me go for good.

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  Mother, Men, Russia

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• We can’t forget that I owe you my life.” She gazed at him. “We can’t forget that I belong to you.” “I like that sound of that,” Alexander said, hugging her tighter.

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  Hug, Sound, Forget

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• But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and even America, and crossed the street for Tatiana Metanova.

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  War, Sunday, America

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• When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

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  Ice Cream, Soldier, Saws

  Paullina Simons (2009). “The Bronze Horseman”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.

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  War, Distance, Long

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• If there is God, I thought...Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh..." "Tatiasha...isn't it nice to know there is a God?

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  Girl, Nice, Making Love

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• You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.

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  Rivers, Mountain, Way To Live

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• Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

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  Light, Darkness, Deserve

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• I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.

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  Writing, Two, Knowing

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• ....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I’ll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face.

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  Eye, Faces, Gorgeous

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• Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.

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  Rivers, Soul, Dawn

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• Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.

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  Heart, Eye, Enough

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• And then, because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms.

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  Arms, Way, Helping

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• Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?

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  Believe, Doubt, Important

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• "Alexander, were you looking for me?" "All my life."

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  "The Bronze Horseman". Book by Paullina Simons, 2001.

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• He sent you to redeem me, to comfort me, and to heal me—and that’s just so far,” he added with a smile.

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  Comfort, Heal

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• Tania, last time in Morozovo, I let you go, but not this time. This time we live together or we die together.

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  Together, Lasts, Letting You Go

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• I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.

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  Giving, Way, Breaths

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• Tania,” he whispers, “promise me you won’t forget me when I die.” “You won’t die, soldier,” she says. “You won’t die. Live! Live on, breathe on, claw onto life, and do not let go. Promise me you will live for me, and I promise you, when you’re done, I will be waiting for you.” She is sobbing. “Whenever you’re done, Alexander, I will be here, waiting for you.

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  Letting Go, Waiting, Soldier

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• Shura, I’m yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.

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  Wrath, Wish, Different

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• Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the body you destroyed for me, for the son you have given me, for the twenty-nine days we lived like Red Birds of Paradise, for all our Naples sands and Napa wines, for all the days you have been my first and last breath, for Orbeli- I will forgive you.

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  Heart, Wine, Son

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• War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

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  War, Lying, Men

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• Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

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  Despair, Body, Shattered

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• Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could have still been possible." He kissed her lips. "Do you know what I'm talking about?" When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. "I know that moment," whispered Tatiana.

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  Ice Cream, Talking, Soldier

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