Part 4: Meridian Hill
Chapter 19
How can you feel for someone you don’t really know and whom you may even call your enemy? That was what Mitch wondered as he stood with a lit candle in the back of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow for Alexey’s funeral service. He had a lot of time to think, for there was a lot of standing in the dark mystery that was the Russian Orthodox Church. Mitch, who considered himself a Jew more in the cultural than the religious sense, understood little of what was going on, despite his smattering of Russian, so he passed the time observing the paltry number of mourners—the women in babushkas whom he took to be from the Sts. Nicholas and Alexandra Orphanage; the young woman who kept rubbing Dimi’s back and whispering to him, whom Mitch recognized from
