“Is this Stephen?” shouted an unfamiliar old man out of the tube. He does not use his home phone.. Mothers used to call friends, colleagues . Condolences from . About the death of the mother, who did not know how it was, so young, what happened, bad doctors, here I have a good doctor, put . on my feet Misha is tired of these calls, tired of the surprise of unfamiliar people, surprise, for which the joy of superiority glittered: they are alive. Many were curious, asked for details of the disease and were very disappointed to learn that there was no disease. There was no suffering, no paralysis, no false hopes, no quacks, no stinking sheets, no bedsores. The vessel burst. And all . There were enough people interested in Misha at the funeral, one of her colleagues looked in the coffin - checked whether the colleague in his last makeup was good. One day, Misha stopped picking up the phone, and the calls stopped by themselves. This time, the call woke him up, he turned for a long time and hid under the blanket, was going to pull the cord or pick up the phone and immediately put it, but gave up, put the phone to his ear ... ”