Thank God for the birches!

Andrey Anisimov
Nov 4 · 1 min read
Photo by Peng Chen on Unsplash

In March, many Ukrainians go to the forest, cut a whole in a birch, put a container under the trunk and wait till it fills up.

-Barbaric, — my father said once.

Then he pulled back the birch and catapulted himself into the air.

He hasn’t paid alimony ever since either.

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Andrey Anisimov

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