Hello, baby. Make yourself comfortable, for I am going to tell you
a long story about faraway Russia. Once upon a time on October 7th,
1964, in a provincial city Rostov-on-Don, in a family of a Journalist
and an Engineer, there was born a lovely girl, named Irina,
which means 'peace'. Since the very birth she was surrounded by love
of her grandmother and grand-grandmother (who came to Russia before
1917 from Poland, looking for a better lot). The girl was obedient,
joyful and active, but a very picky eater, so the grannies kept chasing
her all over the yard trying to spoon-feed their pet (while the pet
remained the same joyful and slim for many years and now is 162 cm
tall, and weighs 50 kg).
After a while
her father left the family and the girl grew up without him, but she's
still on friendly terms with him. Studying at school was very easy
for her, even though she was not a girl of outstanding intelligence.
Teachers liked her for docility and friends for good temper, outgoingness
and an ironical disposition. She was well-respected by her classmates,
and always on good account, so she was a continuous youth leader at
school. Apart from studies, she was involved in many after-school
activities. She learned to play the piano and to sing, played in a
drama studio, and a puppet theater, liked woodburning and pokerwork,
was a member of a dog-breeding club. She was a devoted animal-lover
and used to pick up abandoned kittens in the streets, which later
turned into luxurious cats. From the very early childhood Irina loved
reading books. She was a reader of several libraries and each time
after visiting them brought home a pile of books bigger than herself.
Her interests were very various. She liked historical novels, where
noble cavaliers protected their ladies and swore eternal love, detective
stories of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Chase, fantastic sagas
of Isaac Asimov, brothers Strugatskys, of Belyaev. Her favorite book
was 'Gone with the Wind'. She was dying to be like Scarlett O'Hara
- beautiful, persevering, resistant to life hardships and strong in
spirit.
She liked being
with younger kids since early childhood and dreamed to devote herself
to raising kids. Her dream came true. She graduated from a Teachers
Training College and became an Educator at a daycare. She aspired
to meet her Rhett Butler, and at last he turned up in shape of an
officer - a graduate of a Military Academy. It seemed to be so romantic
to go with him far away and suffer all the hardships of the life on
a military base together, to wait for him to come back from his duties
on the borderline of the country. Soon they had a daughter - Anastasia.
Unfortunately, life has its stark realities. The country encountered
drastic changes, which affected the young family too. There was a
redundancy in the army and they had to go back to Rostov-on-Don and
to look for a new job, a new dwelling, new friends. Irina was fortunate
and found a job almost at once, though not in the educational field,
but among the military people, made new friends and found a comfortable
flat to live. Her husband could not adapt to the civil life, so unordinary
for him, and did not find a decent place for himself in the new environment.
Irina was unable to carry on her weak shoulders the load of providing
for family, paying the bills, taking care of the child and the husband,
and helping the elderly parents. Their family life dashed against
financial problems and the marriage broke up.
She was left alone.
But why alone? She had a wonderful daughter, who was a gifted student
of French, and she had a loving mother and devoted friends. She broke
with her past and the military ambiance, found an interesting job
at an Information Agency, signed in an aerobics club, started to actively
socialize with friends, go to the theater, museums, exhibitions, travel.
That young, beautiful, tastefully dressed woman, produced an impression
of a lady completely satisfied with her serene life. Nobody could
think that deep inside she was a very lonely and hurtable woman, who
wanted to lean upon a strong male shoulder to feel protected from
the difficulties of this world. She got tired of being a strong woman.
She wanted to be weak and helpless in care of her life partner, to
live happily in her own house with a loving husband, to take care
of him, to share all the joys and sorrows with him, to spend all free
time with him, to discuss books, TV programs, his work issues. She
wanted a husband, who was a true friend, a loving father, a passionate
lover.
At last, a wonderful
foreign prince appeared in her life…
The end of this
story is still to be written and it mostly depends on you what the
finale will be. Do you want this story to have a happy end - 'they
lived happily ever after and died on the same day'? Would you like
to be my prince?
Well, what else
to write about myself? I have dark brown eyes and light brown hair.
I neither smoke nor drink alcohol. My daughter is 14 now. A few words
about my desirable life partner - a Caucasian man, age and color of
hair and eyes is not important. Height is also of no importance but
I don't like overweight men. I don't mean that he must have an ideal
athletic figure, not at all. I do not mind if he has children of his
own. I'll take care of them with pleasure if it is necessary. I would
also like to have mutual children in my new marriage. Above all, the
right man for me must be intelligent, kind, love children and have
a sense of humor.
At school I studied
English, so I can speak it a little bit. Unfortunately, I don't have
a computer at home, but I have a PC and a constant access to the Internet
at work.
E-mail
available
posted in
July 2002
updated in October
2002
