On Saint Katerine’s Day
Lili Berger
1970
Katerine Vrublevska had thick black curly hair, large, dark velvet eyes, a pale, dreamy, longish face and was fifteen years old.
Her classmates described her skin colour as “café au lait.” She knew she was a beauty, how could she not know since they always told her so. Among her school-friends she looked like an exotic rose by some chance growing…
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