They tore up half the street on Lenin again, dug it all to pieces looking for old pipes that probably should have been replaced in 1987. Now it is March and the mud is what it always is — not quite frozen, not quite liquid, just angry. My neighbour Sergei had to carry his sick wife three blocks around the construction because the ambulance could not get through. The foreman said it would take two weeks. That was six weeks ago. I stopped asking when it would be done because the answer changes every time and nobody actually knows. You fix what is in front of you and you wait for the rest. That is how it works here.
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