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Tatiana's Table: Tatiana And Alexander's Life Of Food And Love (2007)

by Paullina Simons
(#6 in The Bronze Horseman (Short Story))

Many years have passed since that time Tatiana made lazy cabbage for Alexander. Yet it was still vivid in her mind: her grandmother’s slightly hoarse quiet voice, the taking of the tram across the river, the waning afternoon, the ache in her limping, broken leg: but above all, the desire to make something for someone, for no other reason than to please him.