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Perhaps you've got little ones?
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Never mind, you're young yet
and may have some still.
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The great thing is to live in harmony.
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Well, I was still living at home,
you know?
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We had a well-to-do homestead,
a nice piece of land,
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and a house you'd thank God for.
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When we went mowing,
we were seven. Real peasants.
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Well, one day, I went into someone
else's forest to cut wood.
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The keeper found me, I was flogged
and sent to serve as a soldier.
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We thought that was a misfortune,
but it turned out to be a blessing.
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If I hadn't sinned, my brother would've
gone and he's got five little ones.
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Whereas I only had a wife to leave.
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We had a little girl,
but God took her before I left.
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You've had hard luck.
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We can make it into misery or into joy.
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Hard luck's like water in a dragnet,
you pull and it bulges.
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But when you've drawn it out,
there's nothing in it.
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That's how it is, dear boy.
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Now I think it's time to sleep.
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Lord Jesus Christ, Holy Saint Nicholas,
Frola and Lavra have mercy upon us.
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That's the way.
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Lay me down like a stone
and raise me up like a loaf.
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- What prayer was that?
- I was praying. Don't you pray?
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Yes. But what did you say?
Frola and Lavra?
:29:49
The horse's saints.
One must pity the animals, too.
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Come over here.
Get warm and lie down.
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That's right.