When he was fifteen years old he fell in love with Myra Menke. (He didn't know he was Stanley's great-great-grandfather.)
Myra Menke was fourteen. She would turn fifteen in two months, at which time her father had decided she should be married.
Elya went to her father to ask for her hand, but so did Igor Barkov, the pig farmer.
Igor was fifty-seven years old. He had a red nose and fat puffy cheeks.
I will trade you my fattest pig for your daughter,Igor offered.
And what have you got?Myra's father asked Elya.A heart full of love,said Elya.
I'd rather have a fat pig,said Myra's father. Desperate, Elya went to see Madame Zeroni, an old Egyptian woman who lived on the edge of town.
He had become friends with her, though she was quite a bit older than him. She was even older than Igor Barkov.
The other boys of his village liked to mud wrestle. Elya preferred visiting Madame Zeroni and listening to her many stories.
Madame Zeroni had dark skin and a very wide mouth. When she looked at you, her eyes seemed to expand,
and you felt like she was looking right through you. “Elya, what's wrong?” she asked, before he even told her he was upset.
She was sitting in a homemade wheelchair. She had no left foot. Her leg stopped at her ankle.
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