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Alexandr
staying beside my car

ALEXANDR

Here's Alexandr. I call him simply Shurik (it's the same as Sasha). We met in the school more than 14 years ago (in 1985), but our real friendship started 8 years ago. After the high school graduation, we went to different universities, but still stayed good friends. We live on the same street, so it's not a big problem to meet :o). Both of us are hopeless beer lovers. Who is the one who always invites me to have a couple of shots in the bar at the corner? Yep - it's Alexandr :o).

ANDREY & ANNA

Same story of friendship as with Alexandr... This photo was made in May, 1999. It's the day of their wedding. The most wonderful day in May :o) They invited me just 3 hours before the wedding, so I had to be super-fast :o) On the photo, Anna is 18 and Andery is 21. We used to hang out together.:) Andrey & Anna are always ready to party with us.

Alenushka and Tim
Elena and her cat Tim

Alena & I
One of these 10 crazy beautiful days

Elena
Elena (Alena, Alenushka)
she's 16 here (1995)

ELENA

Elena was born in Byelorussia, Mogilev. Her family moved to the USA when she was 16... She didn't speak English at that time, but now, 3 years later, she is a pretty good speaker.:o)

And she's a girl that I loved. She was the best that happened to me in my life. We met on the Net in one of the Russian chat-rooms. It was my 21st Birthday (December 30, 1997). Then we moved our conversations to ICQ. In the end of January 1998, I got her photos. I felt that I saw the princess, the Queen of Beauty. We were chatting every day, sending postcards to each other, talking on the phone...

In one chat she wrote these lines, and before typing she asked me to close my eyes so that I couldn't see what she was typing. What did she think about me?...

"Naive, credulous, single-minded, frank, intelligent, handsome, faithful, romantic, enchanting, open-minded, kind, nice, modest, optimistic, funny, friendly and lovely guy."

I remember time when I felt that I REALLY needed her. It was the day when she ran away from home and stayed (for a week) at her friend's place. I missed her, because we didn't meet on the ICQ for he whole week...

7 months later we met in the RL (real life). We spent 10 crazy beautiful days in the USA. Traveling through cities and states, we were making our feelings sharper and deeper. Those 10 days are gone and never came back to us... and never will... Now our friendship shows that we can also be very good friends.

By the way, Alena has a cute cat, Tim. He's like a big toy, you can play with him, do whatever you want, and he'll stay patient. Only if you really got him, he would run away and hide :o)) I know that Tim is a very big glutton.

Yelena's the most beautiful girl I know and ... so energetic, initiative, creative and optimistic person :o)

Now Alena is a Drexel student. Every test she had at Drexel was marked as "A+++++++" :o) Currently she is an intern in Rohm and Haas Company working as an Internal Auditor. Spoiled girl is her nickname.

OLYA

It's Olga. I don't' know much about her, but I saw her when I was in the USA (she's Lena's friend). Also we are talking via the ICQ every other day. Sometimes I can't stand here because she often says things that I prefer not to hear... those that hurt me. But generally speaking, she's my friend too. If we managed to stay friends up-to-day, then I guess I need her friendship :o)

Her previous nickname was WildFlower, and now - Raindreamer (very miraculous nick).

At this photo she's 18 (as far as I remember), 1999 yr.

Olya

OLYA

It's Olga too :o) She's 30 years old, has a child - daughter. We met on the Net in January, 1999. Some stories that she sent to me were quite interesting and philosophic :o) Sometimes, if I want to talk about life, I write her an e-mail, then we meet on the ICQ and wasting our time discussing the philosophy of life :o))

She always answers if I ask her, even if she hasn't appeared on the ICQ for a long time :o)

Stacey is her nickname.

ELENA

And the last friend I wanna tell about at this time (July, 1999) is Elena. Usually I call here Alena. She works in RosBusinessColsulting Company as a postmaster. She's 26, has two children (son and daughter). Also, she runs FIDO node and writes poems.

Her nickname is zerocool.

Elena (zero, zerocool)

	Life-friends: Alexandr; Andrey and Anna; Elena; Olya; Olya; Elena.	At work: Natalia, Oksana, Olya, Alexandra, Katya, Tanya, Anya, Dennis.