Lisa grew up in an ordinary family. That’s how everyone lived in the Soviet Union. She was not spoiled, sometimes she was given a belt. But with the advent of her younger sister, it became very bad. Her sister was born at the ripe old age of her parents. They were ready for children by then. So they tried to give all their love to their youngest daughter. And they almost forgot about Lisa.
They used her instead of a nanny, a cleaner, a cook. They should not have forgotten about her studies! No one was interested in Lisa’s leisure time and she was left to herself. She constantly wanted to disappear, to dissolve, to run away. She longed for a life of her own. To escape from a hellish hell.
Her life was complicated. But she had a dream. Lisa was already pregnant at 18. And the father was a neighbor’s boy. David. When she came to him with the news, he sent her away:
“You? Are you expecting a baby from me? Are you trying to trick me? I’ve never seen you before!” She cried all day long, and then she went to tell her parents. They just started yelling:
“Who do you think you are? Have you decided to disgrace us? Is this how we brought you up?”. And all that. Only it was too late with the abortion and my parents decided that we had to have the baby.
They even wanted to force David to marry her. Only his parents were no better than the guy. They responded that paternity wasn’t proven. So back off.
Lisa couldn’t help it… She walked around sad all the time, and her mother’s rebukes only made it worse. A couple of months before she gave birth, David was imprisoned…
