La vida

My name is Richard. I worked my entire life, sacrificed everything I had, just to give my family a secure future.

Oh, John Peter, here I sit alone again with my chamomile tea, rereading my old thoughts about marriage.

For over a year, I had been in a relationship with Emma. Everything seemed to be going well—we had our

Lena always knew that if she told her mother about her plans to marry her beloved as soon as possible

Sophia tightened the buttons on her son’s coat, her face clouded with frustration. The visit to her mother-in-law

  I never thought I was the kind of man who could do something like this. I always believed that love

Since childhood, we have been taught that true happiness is only possible in marriage, with a wife and children.

It happened one evening. David was sitting in a dimly lit bar in New York, staring at the ice swirling

  I stood by the window, watching the street below. My fingers twitched as I held my cigarette, my mind restless.

When my daughter got married, she didn’t have a place of her own. I understood that a young couple needed