Look at the sky

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I turned the head, looked through a window leaf in a dark, covered with nimbus clouds sky and I say:

– Yes, I see: it’s dark and cloudy there.

– But do you know that behind clouds there are stars, don’t you? And in the afternoon behind clouds there is a sun, right?

– Yes, – I agree.

– You don’t need to believe it, – he continued, – you don’t guess if there is a sun behind clouds or not, – you know that it’s there.

– Yes, – I answer, – that’s all true.

– And so, Vasily, people only believe in me, believe in what I am, and you, Vasily, are talking to me!

Chapter 1. Life before “birth”

I remembered the moment from childhood. Times of stagnant eightieth of last century. How old was I back then? Seven… or eight. I remember, once there was a thunder-storm in the evening, and huge dark clouds hung over houses, crumpled to the earth with a lightning. At first I stood behind a door on a balcony and looked at the darkness frightening by weight, and then I suddenly wanted to open a door and to tell these clouds:

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