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		<title>My Family Is My Castle</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>My&#160;family is&#160;my&#160;castle, my&#160;home front. There is&#160;no&#160;place for betrayal, hypocrisy or&#160;window dressing. It&#8217;s a&#160;place where one&#8217;s body and soul can rest, where one can just read a&#160;book, enjoy the company of&#160;the close ones or&#160;just kick one&#8217;s feet up.</p> <p>At present my&#160;family consists of&#160;my&#160;mother Victoria, my&#160;son Roman, our cat Snezhka and myself. I&#8217;ve inherited some features from my&#160;mother, but I&#160;am a&#160;lot like my&#160;father, both in&#160;appearance and in&#160;character. </p> <p></p> <p>My&#160;father died a&#160;long time ago, I&#160;didn&#8217;t see him for thirty years, since&#160;I was three, as&#160;my&#160;parents were divorced. My&#160;mother is&#160;retired now, I&#160;will be&#160;very happy if&#160;she meets a&#160;worthy man and finds her happiness. My&#160;son is&#160;17&#160;now, he&#160;studies to&#160;become an&#160;auto mechanic. At&#160;his spare time he&#8217;s riding a&#160;bike with his friends.</p> Women-Lionesses and Their Pride <p></p> <p>Our pride is&#160;my&#160;grandfather Vyacheslav who fell for his country. He&#160;took part in&#160;the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the rank of&#160;captain. He&#160;was in&#160;charge of&#160;a&#160;small group of&#160;soldiers&#160;&#8212; all that was left of&#160;their battalion, and for three days they held the line near Kamenetz-Podolski. He&#160;was killed the day before his military unit was disbanded. Posthumously, he&#160;was awarded the highest military award in&#160;the USSR, the Hero of&#160;the Soviet Union title. Stalin personally presented my&#160;late grandmother, as&#160;a&#160;widow of&#160;a&#160;military officer, with 70&#160;hundred square metres of&#160;land. We&#160;don&#8217;t have family [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My&nbsp;family is&nbsp;my&nbsp;castle, my&nbsp;home front. There is&nbsp;no&nbsp;place for betrayal, hypocrisy or&nbsp;window dressing. It&rsquo;s a&nbsp;place where one&rsquo;s body and soul can rest, where one can just read a&nbsp;book, enjoy the company of&nbsp;the close ones or&nbsp;just kick one&rsquo;s feet up.</p>
<p>At present my&nbsp;family consists of&nbsp;my&nbsp;mother Victoria, my&nbsp;son Roman, our cat Snezhka and myself. I&rsquo;ve inherited some features from my&nbsp;mother, but I&nbsp;am a&nbsp;lot like my&nbsp;father, both in&nbsp;appearance and in&nbsp;character. </p>
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<p>My&nbsp;father died a&nbsp;long time ago, I&nbsp;didn&rsquo;t see him for thirty years, since&nbsp;I was three, as&nbsp;my&nbsp;parents were divorced. My&nbsp;mother is&nbsp;retired now, I&nbsp;will be&nbsp;very happy if&nbsp;she meets a&nbsp;worthy man and finds her happiness. My&nbsp;son is&nbsp;17&nbsp;now, he&nbsp;studies to&nbsp;become an&nbsp;auto mechanic. At&nbsp;his spare time he&rsquo;s riding a&nbsp;bike with his friends.</p>
<h2>Women-Lionesses and Their Pride</h2>
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<p>Our pride is&nbsp;my&nbsp;grandfather Vyacheslav who fell for his country. He&nbsp;took part in&nbsp;the Great Patriotic War, was awarded the rank of&nbsp;captain. He&nbsp;was in&nbsp;charge of&nbsp;a&nbsp;small group of&nbsp;soldiers&nbsp;&mdash; all that was left of&nbsp;their battalion, and for three days they held the line near Kamenetz-Podolski. He&nbsp;was killed the day before his military unit was disbanded. Posthumously, he&nbsp;was awarded the highest military award in&nbsp;the USSR, the Hero of&nbsp;the Soviet Union title. Stalin personally presented my&nbsp;late grandmother, as&nbsp;a&nbsp;widow of&nbsp;a&nbsp;military officer, with 70&nbsp;hundred square metres of&nbsp;land. We&nbsp;don&rsquo;t have family traditions. We&nbsp;just give each other presents for holidays and birhdays and eat cake. We&nbsp;don&rsquo;t approve of&nbsp;alcohol and cigarettes.</p>
<p>We have guests who come to&nbsp;visit: my&nbsp;friends, my&nbsp;mother&rsquo;s friends and some neighbours (we&nbsp;live in&nbsp;a&nbsp;nine-storey apartment building). I&nbsp;have few friends, it&rsquo;s very hard to&nbsp;find the true friend but&nbsp;I prefer quality to&nbsp;quantity: I&nbsp;don&rsquo;t make friends just to&nbsp;have a&nbsp;lot of&nbsp;them.</p>
<p>In our family all females were born under the sign of&nbsp;Leo&nbsp;&mdash; even our cat Snezhka. She is&nbsp;just as&nbsp;proud and independent as&nbsp;her mistresses. She doesn&rsquo;t snuggles up&nbsp;to&nbsp;just anybody, she can even hiss and strike out at&nbsp;a&nbsp;stranger. I&nbsp;am exactly the way that women born under the sign of&nbsp;Leo are supposed to&nbsp;be. When I&nbsp;read horoscopes, I&nbsp;feel like&nbsp;I was the one they studied to&nbsp;write that description.</p>
<h2>I Will Make A&nbsp;Good Wife</h2>
<p>There are no&nbsp;ideal people or&nbsp;ideal families. There are always some things that make life difficult. I&nbsp;would like to&nbsp;see a&nbsp;strong and independent man by&nbsp;my&nbsp;side. Mama&rsquo;s boys should look somewhere else! The beloved of&nbsp;a&nbsp;woman-Lioness is&nbsp;a&nbsp;knight, a&nbsp;romantic, good looking, preferably tall, generous, loyal, ready to&nbsp;shower his woman with gifts and attention but leaving her some breathing space as&nbsp;well. The relationship with him is&nbsp;built on&nbsp;trust and mutual understanding. I&nbsp;will make a&nbsp;good wife: calm, kind, caring, ready to&nbsp;find a&nbsp;compromise. I&nbsp;will be&nbsp;loyal, honest and devoted if&nbsp;my&nbsp;husband is&nbsp;honest with&nbsp;me. This is&nbsp;the law for&nbsp;me: I&nbsp;hate betrayal! Though I&nbsp;can forgive my&nbsp;BELOVED one a&nbsp;lot.</p>
<p>I let the man to&nbsp;be&nbsp;the breadwinner. I&nbsp;will be&nbsp;happy to&nbsp;be&nbsp;a&nbsp;housewife, but if&nbsp;there&rsquo;s a&nbsp;chance&nbsp;I would like to&nbsp;have my&nbsp;own little business&nbsp;&mdash; something to&nbsp;do&nbsp;with the animals, as&nbsp;I love them very much. In&nbsp;the family there should be&nbsp;equality. I&nbsp;won&rsquo;t stand humiliations. If&nbsp;my&nbsp;husband has his own business and needs my&nbsp;help, I&nbsp;would be&nbsp;happy to&nbsp;do&nbsp;it. All family members should be&nbsp;helping each other.</p>
<h2>There Should Be&nbsp;Only One Mistress In&nbsp;The House</h2>
<p>I would like my&nbsp;mother to&nbsp;find her happiness as&nbsp;well. And, when leaving to&nbsp;join my&nbsp;future husband, I&rsquo;ll be&nbsp;very upset to&nbsp;leave her alone! I&nbsp;would be&nbsp;very happy if&nbsp;my&nbsp;husband can solve this problem.</p>
<p>I would prefer to&nbsp;share the house only with my&nbsp;husband and my&nbsp;son and have all the other relatives living nearby. Because having two mistresses in&nbsp;one household inevitably leads to&nbsp;rows as&nbsp;they have different tastes and different habits. This leads to&nbsp;quarrels, fatigue, bad mood&nbsp;&mdash; and divorce. And I&nbsp;would love to&nbsp;find my&nbsp;man, my&nbsp;better half, and never part with him. I&rsquo;m longing for warmth, peace in&nbsp;my&nbsp;soul and understanding.</p>
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