“The nurse brought into the operating room, holding her elbows from behind, a young woman in an exorbitantly long hospital gown. I automatically glanced at her, shuddered, peered. Tanya, mocking Tanya from our yard, the brightest girl on the street? .. When I went to the institute in the morning, I figured out when I would return, jumped out to meet me, and when she understood these simple maneuvers of a jerk, what was I like in comparison with the big guys who saw her off, then she looked so expressively that I, burning with shame, hid in the house, so that from then on I would follow her returns only because of the curtain ... "