Very bad English / Очень плохой English. Яна Варшавская

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      Doremi was lucky.

      When there was a roll call in the first grade of school number nineteen, a dozen ordinary names were called besides his rare name: Zakhar, Sevostyan, Ilya, Kirill, Vasily, Grigory… Therefore, the boy had no problems with nicknames. No one paid particular attention to the unusualness of his name, which had its own history, moreover, quite beautiful.

      The first time young man seriously wondered if he should change his name was when he applied for physics at Tomsk State University. A young girl from the admissions committee could not even repeat it without distorting it.

      Therefore, at the age of twenty, when passport replacement was required, Doremi received a new passport which stated:

      Dorian Vsevolodovich Cooper.

      When Dorian told me the whole story, I remembered my parents and since then no longer believed that their experiment was cruel…

      Dormidont's parents were far more inventive.

      However, I came up with another short name:

      Doremi.

      It turned out somehow very musically, and he got used to it immediately. Since we were also involved in high art, being in a good mood I sometimes called him Doremi Gray.

      Like Dorian Gray…

      This is the story.

      In any case, his watercolor portrait painted by me on my third year of art school now hangs on the left side wall of Doremi's huge hallway, right above the large black leather sofa, reflected in the glass cabinets along the opposite wall.

      Art teachers often asked Doremi to pose. From time to time, he agreed to pose during painting classes. He continued doing so even when studying at art school became a memory.

      I always admired Doremi's kind of sacrifice, or desire to be useful. A rare quality nowadays, isn't it?

      I like everything about him.

      Absolutely everything.

      I'm already used to some of his oddities. I even start thinking that this is exclusively his zest. In general, it's a great blessing to have a friend who thinks just like you, and can tell honestly what bothers him without looking for excuses in order to evade an inconvenient conversation.

      I trust Doremi unconditionally. Therefore, I inform about my long-term plans or short-term desires as they mature…