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1. Then one evening the girl telephoned.

She wanted to talk to him, so they decided to meet in a


restaurant. He felt very nervous and came early. He sat at the table. It was difficult to look nice with a
broken leg, but his family helped him to get ready. His sister cut his grey trousers. She also cut his hair
for him. And he was wearing his brother’s best tie.
The girl arrived. He remembered how beautiful she was. Was she going to kiss him? She only touched
his cheek, like someone meeting a friend at a party. He suddenly knew how much he loved her. She was
his oldest friend. The two of them went through very difficult times together. She was a part of his life. It
was too late to change that.
“It is hard not living together.” he said.
She looked at him. In this light her eyes seemed to be very dark blue, almost black.

2. Every family has someone who does not belong, the black sheep of the family as we say, and it seems
that everyone too has at least one black uncle. So, I had one as well. My mother loved him a lot when he
was little, but when he grew older she said she would never speak to him again. But actually, when he
came to our house to visit us, she always seemed quite pleased to see him.
He arrived one day when I was very small. We watched him from a distance. He wanted us to look
after a puppy for him. But my mother hated having animals around the house. Yet she agreed to do it.
My uncle bought a large pub in a town not far away. It was not a fashionable pub – quite the
opposite. It was strange for me to enter this noisy place. My uncle was standing in the passage shouting,
“What do you want?” He did not recognize me.

3. My worst problem was my love of fun. I enjoyed the wild night life too much. Many people have
found that a love of fun helps them to enjoy life. I wanted to seem serious, and this did not help. So I was
careful to hide that side of my life. In this way my life became a lie. Even before I finished my studies, I
already had a double life.
The years passed, and I grew older and more sensible. But it was too late to change anything. And
then, through my scientific studies, I learned something important. Man has two sides – a good side and
an evil side. I knew that this was true of me. I was honest about it. As a doctor, I tried to learn more and
help sick people. The other part of me was also honest about it. Slowly it became clear to me that man is
not just one person. He is two people.

4. At the next corner, she finally started walking more slowly, then waited for a couple of cars to go by.
She crossed the street, said hello to her neighbour and went into her building. She took the mail and then
went up the steps to her apartment. She closed the door behind her, looked through her letters and put
them on the table in the dining room.
In the kitchen, she poured herself a glass of ice tea and carried the glass to her bedroom. She took off
her clothes and threw them on the bed. She was looking forward to a long bath in hot water when she saw
the green light on the telephone. She pushed the play button and heard her mother’s voice telling her that
she was welcome to visit her later on. She thought that her voice sounded a little frightened and nervous.
Then she heard that she had a second message on the answering machine.
5. Even we understood that he must go. It was decided that my father should carry him back to the
woods. Once again he was put inside the big pocket in father’s old jacket. And so, the next day, our father
said that our rabbit ran away, neither happy nor sad. We heard it and believed him, but inside we felt very
unhappy. How would the others receive him? Would they smell that he was different, that he had lived
with humans? Would they reject him? My mother laughed at the idea.
However, he was gone. My father looked out for him. He said that several times as he was
walking through the woods in the early morning, he saw him eating grass. He called him, but there was
no answer.
I myself would go to the edge of the woods and call softly. Sometimes I imagined I saw his eyes
looking out from behind the bushes. Could it be him?

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