Did a real person write this?? this is the weirdest, oddest story; all over the place, shifting place back and forth like whiplash. Eh. Why did he take the stairs? So much unsaid it's confusing and you had to guess what's going on. The pregnancy was not a surprise. Yes, he is not old, just older than her. There's only 3 syllables in "Halyna" not 4. All that technical-machinery talk, who cares?! who was the guy in the grey car? All of a sudden it's about her mother, or not, or pierogis? NOTHING MADE SENSE