"When I was born, I was born Vera Sidorov... in 1882 at Yanovka." She began her tale while cleaning Valentine's arms, the beauty kept straddling his chest while Fayette was inside the pool, leaning forward and cleaning his legs, listening attentively.
"My mother was a prostitute... and she had me by mistake... even then, she didn't kill me, she accepted me and worked hard to sustain us but... in the end life was too difficult."
"..."
"One day, while shopping through one of the markets, one boy set his eyes on me... he was Lev and he was the son of a wealthy family, at that time I didn't know which, he was three years older than me and he seemed to have 'fancied' me when he saw me... He was seven years old and I was three."
