Hyun Woo was chatting with a Russian woman on a language exchange app. We shall call her Gorkaya, as a sign of respect to a great Russian writer, Gorky. Gorkaya was the same age as Hyun Woo was, and as often is the case with Russian women around age thirty, she had already experienced a divorce. This Hyun Woo learned from the endless wall of Russian tex…
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