Kolya and I met with the colonial. We both saw this very pretty girl. When we tried to find out who it is the colonial said it was his daughter. The colonial said his daughter was getting married next Friday to some guy. He said the guy was a piece of meat. He said his daughter wants a very good a proper wedding even during all of this. When he said all of this he was referring to the famine and war in Leningrad. The colonial said he will have music, dancing, and a cake. The way he said cake was a little different. He looked at us as if there were something momentous about the word cake that we needed to understand. His wife said that it is a tradition to have a cake at a wedding and that you can not have a wedding without a cake. She has every ingredient to make a cake except eggs because they are hard to find. The colonial wanted us to go on a journey to find a dozen of eggs. There are no eggs in Leningrad so we had to travel a lot to find them. The colonial promised us that if we find eggs by next Thursday we will have our lives back.
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