- Daddy, let's call Lisa?

- Daddy, let's invite Lisa to visit?

- Daddy, and Fox will go to the cinema with us ...

And so all weekend long. My daughter's beloved father suddenly became scarce, and all Saturday and Sunday I kept getting questions from Romashka. Questions she never seems to run out of. And everyone is certainly connected with Alice.

At some point, I finally despaired of spending time alone with the child in peace and quiet and called Marat, who, through the personnel department, obtained Alice’s number for me, and with whom Roberta enthusiastically whispered for almost an hour in her room.

When I tried to break...