Early pregnancy can be perfect, but it is never without consequences. Thanks to this mistake of youth, someone quickly grows up, while others are forever frozen in childhood. The new story by Andrei Zhvalevsky and Evgenia Pasternak consists of two parts. They are very different in mood. And if after the first part (“Forty and a half weeks”) you feel sad and hopeless, do not despair: the second part will add optimism to you. Test readers assessed “The Rake of Samsara” differently, but the phrase “couldn’t put it down” was repeated by almost everyone. Let us quote one response that is very important for the authors: “I can’t write a dry review. Too much personal. I'm a lousy test reader this time... But thank you very much. Together, both parts turned out so deep and close. I am learning to leave the circle of samsara. Thank you.”