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Ivinskaya later recalled, " But I became so ill through loss of blood that she and Luisa had to get me to the hospital, and I not longer remember exactly what passed between me and this heavily built, strong-minded woman, who kept repeating how she didn't give a damn for our love and that, although she no longer loved Leonidovich herself, she would not allow her family to be broken up.

After my return from the hospital, Boria came to visit me, as though nothing had happened, a dn touchingly made his peace with my mother, telling her how much he loved me.

By now she was pretty well used to these funny ways of his.