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where there weren’t any men,
and she’d long wanted to tell us
that she was getting married,
that her husband was a big boss
and that I needed to take his last name
so I could be treated at the Kremlin hospital.
But Grandma answered that before you
change a child’s name,
you need to think hard
about what to do with the mouse,
but Mama cut her off, what’s to think about:
leave the mouse together with the house – and go –
and then Grandma announced
she wanted to die in her own home,
and I won’t go to that hospital,
I added,
and I will only change my name to Vovka’s
and I went to extract the mouse from the trap
because it was too late to go get
Vovka,
sleeping with a mouse was scary,