Nick Neim's Stories

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  • FLASHES – Part two – Chapter 5 – Concerns and Meetings

    Part One – Here (Western Hemisphere) CHAPTER FIVE – CONCERNS AND MEETINGS Now, many years after moving, past events look like filming in an accelerated rhythm: we arrived, learned a language, learned a specialty, got settled, raised children, helped relatives to settle, communicated with friends and even traveled. But, in fact, life then, compared to now, did…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 79 – Departure and arrival

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY NINE – DEPARTURE AND ARRIVAL And then we returned home, and seeing offs after seeing offs began. Feasts. Farewells. My classmates gave me a farewell party at Sveta’s (I talked about it in Chapter 21). Soon the plane tickets were in our hands. So we said goodbye to our…

  • FLASHES – Chapter 73 – The Moscow experiment: Interesting situations. Work and life (Part 1)

    Part One – There (Eastern Hemisphere) CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE – THE MOSCOW EXPERIMENT: INTERESTING SITUATIONS. WORK AND LIFE (PART 1) 1. Interesting situations Although Tbilisi and Moscow were cities of the same country (USSR), the customs, views and behavior of the people in them were so different that it seemed to me that sometimes in Moscow…