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| | BULAT OKUDZHAVA |
 | | In Kutaisi, recently stripped of its administrative status, 'Van 'Vanych's other grandad, hard-drinking Stepan Okudzhava, had begun in those long departed years to be aware in morning moments of sobriety and repentance that the world was falling apart, and to realize too that his numerous children were caught up in the destroying of it. |
 | | His much loved, sincere, bright-eyed boys and girls with their ready smiles were foretelling unimaginable blessings for all without exception, for the people who lived on their street or anywhere else in Kutaisi, for anybody who lived anywhere in Georgia, or Russia, or Africa, or America. |
 | | Meanwhile, the world war was coming to its end, and nobody considered that it had been part of God's providence. |
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