The third day a blizzard raged outside the window, winter came into its own. The road situation immediately deteriorated, the car was enveloped in a white veil, the wheels slipped in the snow porridge. My heart was sad. During the day I tried not to pause, I constantly went to interviews, but in the evening it became especially hard. Outside the window, the darkness was thickening, it blew hopelessness. It seemed that now I was doomed to live in darkness and cold all my life.

I did not expect that it would be so difficult to part with Yegor. I had forgotten how much I was angry with him. I...