Then one morning Lada, unable to reach him by phone at his home at Vitryani Hory, did not hesitate to go to Vynohradar and force her way into the flat rented by Halya, who was her friend as well as a classmate on a women’s studies course. A fight broke out and the girls were rolling about on the floor, where blood-stains and tufts of hair soon appeared. He did his best to separate the ferocious girls, but they both pushed him away, telling him to mind his own business. Several days after this colourful brawl he moved in with Lada. And not long after that Halya went off to America.
When Lada became pregnant her aggressiveness was directed towards him. She scratched his face and tried to grab him by the hair. It was all he could do to restrain her.
“Well, after all you are twenty eight, so
