By Irina Magid

A Story of Love

It was long ago in the former Soviet Union. She was a young woman and worked at the Leningrad Institute. She had a good family: a loving husband and daughter.

Among many of her co-workers there was a divorced man of the same age. He fell in love with her on the first day of their acquaintance. He fondly followed her and always tried to give her pleasure. But she tried to hold their relationship within bounds of their working relationship.

Very soon he began to suggest to her to divorce. He asked her to leave her husband, get married to him, take her daughter and come to him forever in his new cooperative apartment.

When she refused, he tried to retaliate against her violently. He destroyed all the results of her work and disturbed her performance of work. His huge and true love turned to revenge. It became impossible to work together. They both tried to find another job. But they were Jews and it was an unsolved problem.

She was forced to go to the boss and ask him to separate them in their work. It was a big pain, trauma for him. He believed he could not get married again. A few years later he got married. But he never forgot the woman of his great love.

I think love is the best sense of men. But unfortunately often this great sense brings disappointment and suffering.