SALVATION

 

She looked at herself in the mirror.

Her tears streamed down the face and neck, then yet non-dried traced out way to her sore.

Instead of a magnificent, beautifully shaped breast gaped an ugly stitch.

After the operation she didn’t want to meet anybody. In spite of all long conversations with the surgeons and the hospital’s psychologist who convinced her of the knowledge she is still the same pretty woman with lovely bosom. Nevertheless she was not the Woman with the Bosom every single man stared after. And never will be. She was a half female. No, not a half, even not a female!

Months along she spent in isolation, allowed an approach solely to her daughter and didn’t permit an access even of her granddaughter she adored.

She met the dawn in front of the computer. Found new friends who lied she is abroad. And because of that there was no chance to become acquainted with them.

Until… she met Him – the man who until recently leaved in the column ‘given up’ – he was informed he has 2-3 months bits of life.Morbus Hodgkin… Horrified diagnosis!

The woman, God knows why, felt strong around him. Obviously they were related. She didn’t admit she is actually not a woman… A woman without one breast… Had been operated, now is OK.

Several weeks they met daylight together. They converted into one entity.

To see each other?!

Why not!

Just a date – nothing more she thought staring in the looking-glass at the ill-favoured suture.

She padded the brassiere with cotton. Probably she would take the plunge for prosthesis, but… some day, not now. Now she had no wishes, no dreams.

They met each other and regardless of her deep resistance, her heart started vibrating madly. She liked him!

After few hours spent in a cafe, she found herself in his modest lodgings.

She knew perfectly well the horror she will be submerged in, and he himself, as well, when he catches a sight of the sewing.

The man carefully unbuttoned the bra. Keeping her eyes violently closed, she trembled and was ready to leave.

A break, a little bit longer than a normal one.

And after it His lips touched the place where time ago there was a female beauty. His spirit received his Salvation. He gave a Love he has never ever given at all.

She felt such hundred percent woman she never ever known she is. 

 

Evgenia MARINCHEVA

 

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