"Such is life." How many times have each of us heard and repeated these words ourselves, complaining about the injustice of fate, the impossibility of changing anything in it. The heroes of the stories collected in this book know very well what loss, disappointment, and betrayal are. But they also know something else: life is worth appreciating every moment of it. It is impossible to live without difficulties and problems. But without rain there is no rainbow, without autumn mud there is no pure white snow. The black stripe is necessarily replaced by a white stripe. That is life. And she must be loved for who she is.