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Book review: Six-word memoirs on Love and Heartbreak

Six-word memoirs on Love and Heartbreak is an extremely short, and yet infinitely meaningful collection of stories that will evoke an echo in anyone that has truly lived. Lovers lost, loves gained, hopes forgotten, secrets, memories… Six words can say so little, and sometimes so much. Coffee, my vice. So was he. – Alessandra Rizzotti

Book Review: The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband’s crumbling country estate, The Bridge. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. But inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling…

Autocross Moldova Grand Final 2017

My new friend #birdsofinstagram #green A post shared by Natalia Donets (@ndparis) on Aug 9, 2017 at 8:11am PDT

Photo report: Taekwondo Moldova Open G1 2017

Faces of Victory. 9th of May 2017 in Chisinau

The Day after the Storm

#straysofMoldova in the aftermath of the Chisinau April snow storm

#straysofmoldova part 9 – Mashka

Mashka is a hero of one of the most controversial stray dog stories in Chisinau.  There is a middle-aged lady in our neighborhood. She is often seen walking her dog – a male rottweiler-griffon cross-breed. When Mashka was in heat, she let her own homeboy procreate. The she let him do that again… She’s caring – in a way… This woman feeds the stray dogs, but she also effectively helps their numbers…

#straysofmoldova part 8 – Basil

Basil. Sweet little old guy Basil, also jokingly known as the Pussylicker because of his peculiar way of greeting all female dogs. He lived on the stairs of one of the residential apartment blocks for a great many years until last winter. Basil has not been seen for the last 4 months. #straysofmoldova #Chisinau #Moldova #dogs #straydog A post shared by Natalia Donets (@ndparis) on Mar 31, 2016 at…

#straysofMoldova part 7 – Sausage

Imagine a puppy whose fur felt like the softest of plush toys. A puppy that also happened to look remarkably like a wolf cub. That’s her. Sausage, as she was known to local kids.  Sausage was ran over by a car some 30 cm from the sidewalk. The driver did not bother to stop, she lay on the road hours after the incident. Sausage #portrait #straysofmoldova #chisinau #straydogs #dog A post shared by…