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Maneh Tsatouryan's Stories

• “Lizok” (Yerevan Is My Hometown)
• “Dancing is nice” (Youth & Peace)
• untitled (First time experiences)

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“Lizok” (Yerevan Is My Hometown)

I live in a 12-story building and my only friend in this huge building is Liza, an eleven-year-old girl who lives next to us. What would the kids of our neighborhood do without Liza, or Lizok, as they warmly call her?

It was a pleasant summer day. We were out pouring water on each other. Lizok wasn't there. She was ill, lying in her bed. It was sad without her.

Suddenly we saw Lizok coming. Though she was ill, she agreed to join us. I think she shouldn't have. A high temperature and long hours in bed followed these few minutes of fun. All of us visited her in groups until she recovered.

Wrote at 11 years old age

“Dancing is nice” (Youth & Peace)

Mother tells me they didn’t even have weddings some years ago, during the war. The bridegroom just came and took the bride without any music or dancing. Can you imagine people singing when in every home there are either soldiers out fighting on the front or mothers who have lost their sons? This is perhaps the reason my parents took my brother and me to dancing classes. Sometimes dance tires us but the stories our mother tells us stop us from complaining. There is music, people dance…this is already good, and this means peace has come.

Wrote at 11 years old age

untitled (First time experiences)

It was winter. My elder brother had to stay with us that day. When my granny took me to bed, my brother came to my room and scared me. I yelled and began to weep, calling out “granny”. Granny immediately ran in. She was very angry with my brother.
“You are old enough, I think, not to behave this way.”
“What did I do?”

Granny calmed me, gave me my teddy and sang me to sleep. That evening I pronounced my first word.

Wrote at 11 years old age