“Russians find no crime being stout,” she said. “We are not so lazy as Americans who jump into their automobile. Few here own cars. We are forced to walk more. The USSR has no weaker sex.”
One lady swilled vodka neat, laced with black pepper, washed down with beer. Her companion: “The trick is eating plenty bread and butter first. Butter as a coating sponges up any alcohol. The penalty for drunkenness is severe. Your name’s placed last on the list for an apartment.”
She herself craved “something light. Pink. We haven’t such color. Also an eyebrow pencil of foreign manufacture, which doesn’t irritate an eyelid.”We agreed to meet secretly — later — 3 o’clock, alone, on Kutuzovsky Prospekt where I’d empty what I had with me. I waited an hour. She never showed. And I never saw or heard from her again.
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