We choose, we are chosen...Happiness when feelings are mutual. And if not, the story that formed the basis of the story “The Faithful Husband” that opens this book is real. At one of the many reader meetings, a woman came up to me and handed me a bundle of letters . I forgot about them, and when I remembered and began to read, I could not break away .. There was so much passion, so much anguish, so much joy in these letters... I never knew the man who wrote these letters, I never knew the woman to whom they were addressed. But I thought I could hear their voices, see their faces. And I perfectly imagine the feelings of my heroine, who, after the death of her beloved husband, discovered them - other people's letters, where there were the same words that she had been waiting for all her life.