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Dont want the story to end

Dmitry’s love for Vera is astonishing and only a love that can be understood by those who have had the blessing and privilege to experience it. Although it is not the “movie love” that Americans have grown accustom to the fantasy of, it is a true and complicated love— a grounded love. A love that promotes the egoist to act nobly, even when it inevitably caters to their own self interest.

“There’s a great mass of honest and good people, but there are very few people like them. But these few people are within that mass, as theine is in tea, as bouquet is in fine wine. They are its strength and its aroma. They are the flower of the best people, the movers of the movers, the salt of the salt of the earth.”