#jib2014

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“I can’t believe all I had to do is give you a cookie to get you to bite a nipple. That’s very unexpensive”.

Oh, I'm endlessly sorry that it took me so long to make a report about the book! I really have a couple of weighty excuses, but they are unlikely to be of any interest to you, so I'll just say that I am really sorry that I made ​​you wait so long. So, for a start, a few words about the book itself. We collected 51 your emails - dramatic and sad stories that touched our hearts - and supplemented them with 101 reasons of why we love Misha. On each page there was a reason, sometimes they were supplemented with your stories or just photos. And I want to apologize to those whose photos we used without their permission. At that time we had absolutely no time to look for authors and write to each of them. We made no money from the project - on the contrary, I spent about $260 to buy all the materials and to print texts, and wasted much time and nerves - and I hope you are not mad at us for that. But once again, we are sorry. After that, all of these wonderful and beautiful words of love and touching stories were collected on the pages of a scrapbook made ​​with my own hands. I didn't have enough time, so I finished some of them on my way to Rome - in Moscow, in Rome, and even the night before the Con, right at the Hilton. But in the end, with the invaluable help of my friends whom I want to thank individually, everything was ready for the long-awaited day. And then, on first day of the Con, I had to present the book to Misha. I was really worried, because it was my first convention, and I wanted Misha to be the first person I'd meet, to give him the gift, that we all had been working at. But according to the Con's schedule Misha's autograph session began only about five in the evening, and I had to wait almost for three hours. So in the meantime I decided to get autographs from the other actors, attend Misha's panel, and then hand him the book. But during his panel a pretty funny story happened, that's why I began to worry even more, because I was afraid that Misha would begin to troll me about what happened. Me and my friends got in the line for the Misha's autograph, and I started shaking with fear :D And then, when my turn came, I gave a collage to be signed, which was specially made ​​by wonderful kelisab, to the staff. At that time a fan ahead of me was still talking to Misha, and when she finished, the stuff pushed the collage to Misha, he glanced at us, we said hello, and he started signing, and then I said, "I have something for you. It is pretty big, but it's only because we have collected all our love for you there", and then I gave him the book (it was big enough, about 25x22 cm and about 10 cm thick). By that moment he had already finished to sign the collage, and then he raised his head and asked: "What, what is it?" I gave him the book, and he started flipping through, turning the spine of the book to him. Then me and one of my friends together said that this was a book, which brought together stories of fans whose lives Misha had changed, and then I told him (I don't remember the exact words because I'm still in shock that it happened at all, I was nervous so I forgot what I said, as soon as I pronounced it): "Once you said you don't deserve us, our love, and this book was made to prove you how you're wrong, to tell you that you do deserve all the best the world can give you.. because you're such an amazing person and you have no idea how many people you've saved". I was telling him this looking at him, and at some moment I realized that he shyly lowered his head sideways and started to get up from the table, saying, "Ohh, stoooop it", moved across the table and hugged me and OH MY GOD MISHA IS HUGGING ME AND HIS HAIR TOUCHING MY CHEEKBONE AND IT IS SO SOFT AND HE IS SO WARM AND HOLDING ME SO TIGHT AND IT SEEMED WE WERE STANDING THAT WAY FOR ALL ETERNITY What's the best in Misha's hugs is that he doesn't let you go until you decide that you've had enough, until you break embraces and pull away, you know that he would be standing and holding you in his arms even until the end of time. Then I tried to pull myself together and quietly let him go. Smiling, I handed him the letter from one of the fans, which I couldn't include in the book bc it had been sent too late, I thanked him and said goodbye AND THEN I NEARLY DIED OF HAPPINESS AND RELIEF THAT I FINALLY DID SOMETHING FOR WHAT I WAS PREPARING FOR AGES AND HE STILL HUGGED ME HE HUGGED ME I CAN'T BELIEVE IT And when I returned home to St. Petersburg, I found a bunch of messages from my friends with one and the same photo from Daniela's tweet AND BURST INTO TEARS OF HAPPINESS because we had worked for THIS VERY smile, put our whole souls into this book for THIS VERY smile, and I can't describe how happy I am and how this image is still warming my heart. Above you can see the video of the book which Mila made specially for you. Thanks to everyone who sent their stories and all those who just supported my project, thank you for each reblog and for every kind word about Misha. And special thanks to all those who helped me in the creation of the book: • wonderful Grind who helped me to sort out your emails and letters and suggested good ideas for the reasons to love Misha; • dear Lisha, who together with wonderful Mila helped to find necessary materials, tweets and just brought me to my senses when I was freaking out; • lovely Mila for the great job with the tweets and videos that she made. All these people helped to collect the materials together and support during this long and sometimes painful way. And many thanks to my savior Julia, who found special paper available only in St. Petersburg, printed out the stories left and brought them to me to Rome from St. Petersburg! Without you everything would have been in vain, you're my hero!) I am so glad that we managed to make Misha happy, and I hope that all other projects in the future will be just as good, if not even better :)

With you wherever you go, so let's go

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