Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

We Were Expecting Our First Child. My Husband Wanted A Boy And I Wanted A Girl. The Doctors Tried To Convince Me: "You Need To Get An Abortion. Your Husband Was At Chernobyl." He Was A Truck Driver; They Called Him In During The First Days. He Drove Sand. But I Didn't Believe Anyone. The Baby Was Born Dead. She Was Missing Two Fingers. A Girl. I Cried. "She Should At Least Have Fingers," I Thought. "She's A Girl.

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