In youth, life seems like something simple and uncomplicated. Everything is so easy to sort out into shelves, split into black and white, bad and good. Over the years, a person realizes that between black and white there are shades of gray; that there is no good without bad and vice versa. And with age, the heroes of Metlitskaya make another discovery: life is stronger and wiser than a person. All attempts to artificially change it, to turn it by one hundred eighty degrees, are pointless. You just need to trust it—and it won’t let you down.
Contents
What Is Stronger
A Light Life
Eve Unsinkable
Simka-Simona
Quite Happy Women
Ivochka
A Smart Woman, Zoya Nikolaevna
Mistresses of Fate, or Entangled by God’s Maps
An Honest Word
A Charm (About the Oddities of Love)
Hello, Pushkin!
Native Blood
Lessons of Music
Doughnuts for Aznavour