Chapter 41: September 9th: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna

September 9th: My Dearest Barbara Alexievna September 9th. My dearest Barbara Alexievna—I am beside myself as I take up my pen, for a most terrible thing has happened. My head is whirling round. Ah, beloved, how am I to tell you about it all? I had never foreseen what has happened. But no—I cannot say that I had never foreseen it, for my mind did get an inkling of what was coming, through my seeing something very similar to it in a dream. I will tell you the whole story—simply, and …