And in general, I had an amazing life, but I didn’t like it... All the time I was complaining...

When I get out of here - I’ll get the freedom that I never had. Only when you lose something, you realize the value of the loss. Indeed!"

But it didn't matter how good and right the lawyers were. The judges didn’t listen to them, and neither to witnesses or facts. 

...

Vika, by the way, did not even hand over things from the cell to the warehouse. She had no doubt that it all would end up the way it did. Maybe the appeal might change something. But as experience shows, the only benefit from it is extra time to get ready”.

Then I approached this woman (by the way, she is very similar to Hugh Laurie, like a female version) and asked about her unusual love for plants and flowers. It turned out that it wasn’t like that before. She had only one cactus. And eight years ago, there was another woman who took care of the flowers over there… she also was shouting at everyone :)... So, "Hugh Laurie" was forced to look after the flowers. At first, she refused, saying that there should be a soul for that...The flowers began to wither... And she felt very sorry for them. She saved one flower, then another… then started preparing the soil...Collecting rainwater... Dasha, her eyes light up so much when she talks about flowers! She says that they feel everything... As you treat them, the same way they treat you... They are giving back the same energy... And they are also captives here.

(...) By the way, this tree is already 15 years old. It was planted from the seed by that first woman. Today I painted it down and I’m sending it to you. I probably wrote to you before about a tree which almost touches the ceiling... This is it:)"

We always only have aluminium glasses (zechki) in our cells. We boil water in them. They are very hot, and it is impossible to hold them in your hands. But Tanya makes some circles-cases out of SB [Soviet Belarus - a local magazine], and with them it is fine. We drink coffee and tea through an empty pen tube, so the lips do not burn. Because even if the coffee is already cold, the aluminium is still hot”.