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Grandmother’s gift I had a grandmother. And she loved me very much. She came to visit us every month and gave us toys. And she brought along a whole basket of cakes. Of all
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Russian writer Vitaly Kartsev, who lives in Munich in 1982, gets the opportunity to be in Moscow in 2042. Preparing for the trip, he meets his classmate Bukashev Leszek, who made a career in