#40 A Doll

Photo by Igor Zakharenko | Velyka Dymerka, a suburb of Kyiv. April 8, 2022 | A doll in a roadside ditch.

Lyudmyla picked up the pieces of the man she had spent decades with and placed them in a box. Back at the home they made together, she buried him in the garden where they planted vegetables each spring. He laid there under a thin layer of soil until the Russians retreated, and then she transferred his remains to a plot in the local cemetery.