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Well, it all started a little earlier. A couple months before summer.
He was in no hurry to make amends. On the contrary, he decided to protest to everyone and everything. Caused a lot of trouble for his family, just so they'd send him back sooner. But they didn't.
One cool, gloomy day, when spring was just beginning to take its time from winter, I took a boat to the river. In many places there were already thaws, the locals knew that it was impossible to walk there, the black water would swallow it up. The fishermen knocked down some of the ice with oars, because they were not expecting frost anymore.
In the afternoon I had to set the nets. Having sailed to the necessary distance, I did everything I had planned and went back. The cold, penetrating, wet wind got under my clothes an
