My best years have gone bad. Most of them I spent indoors, deadly for the claustrophobic. I often went to the station and was aiming for a silent question in the scoreboard. Nothing new: Ekaterinburg - Yekaterinburg. Initially, between the names of stops it was the difference. But the smaller the mitten near the monument than unbearable heard songs from all the ears, the harder it is to distinguish the words of Kamensk-Uralsky and Yekaterinburg. Over time, all display names began to disappear - Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoufimsk, Perm, Tomsk, Vladivostok ... All of them have been replaced by one nevmeschavshimsya: Yekaterinburg. Dogs ran in packs from the North to the South. Encountering me, they told me the station different news. News was not. Walking past the red brick fence of the zoo, they suddenly stopped, took off their hats and sirens. "Yesterday, the elephant died." Children have not seen it.