“Mom was saying, ‘Kolya, Kolya.’ I shouted, ‘Mom, I’m alive.’”He said he frantically scraped the dust from his face and eyes.
And I was shouting, ‘Mother, mother, it’s just a dream, a horrible dream.’” Mykola had a similar nightmare days earlier, and felt it might be recurring.
Hours earlier, the family had a barbecue, and Mykola senior drank one beer too many and talked passionately about enlisting.
In the pitch black, his son clambered outside, the front of their comfortable family home beyond recognition, its gates torn clean away.
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