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Fry Sight Words List | Sight Words: Teach Your Child to Read

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The Fry Sight Words list is a more modern list of words than the Dolch list, and was extended to capture the most common 1,000 words. Dr. Edward Fry developed this expanded list in the 1950s (and updated it in 1980), based on the most common words to appear in reading materials used in Grades 3-9. Learning all 1,000 words in the Fry list would equip a child to read about 90% of the words in a typical book, newspaper, or website.

The Fry words are listed by the frequency with which they occur and are often broken down into groups of 100. So the first 100 Fry words are the 100 most frequently occurring words in the English language.

1st 100 Fry Sight Words (#1-100) a, about, all, am, an, and, are, as, at, be, been, but, by, called, can, come, could, day, did, do, down, each, find, first, for, from, get, go, had, has, have, he, her, him, his, how, I, if, in, into, is, it, its, like, long, look, made, make, many, may, more, my, no, not, now, number, of, on, one, or, other, out, part, people, said, see, she, so, some, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, this, time, to, two, up, use, was, water, way, we, were, what, when, which, who, will, with, words, would, write, you, your
2nd 100 Fry Sight Words (#101-200) after, again, air, also, America, animal, another, answer, any, around, ask, away, back, because, before, big, boy, came, change, different, does, end, even, follow, form, found, give, good, great, hand, help, here, home, house, just, kind, know, land, large, learn, letter, line, little, live, man, me, means, men, most, mother, move, much, must, name, need, new, off, old, only, our, over, page, picture, place, play, point, put, read, right, same, say, sentence, set, should, show, small, sound, spell, still, study, such, take, tell, things, think, three, through, too, try, turn, us, very, want, well, went, where, why, work, world, years

3rd 100 Fry Sight Words (#201-300) above, add, almost, along, always, began, begin, being, below, between, book, both, car, carry, children, city, close, country, cut, don’t, earth, eat, enough, every, example, eyes, face, family, far, father, feet, few, food, four, girl, got, group, grow, hard, head, hear, high, idea, important, Indian, it’s, keep, last, late, leave, left, let, life, light, list, might, mile, miss, mountains, near, never, next, night, often, once, open, own, paper, plant, real, river, run, saw, school, sea, second, seem, side, something, sometimes, song, soon, start, state, stop, story, talk, those, thought, together, took, tree, under, until, walk, watch, while, white, without, young
4th 100 Fry Sight Words (#301-400) across, against, area, become, best, better, birds, black, body, certain, cold, color, complete, covered, cried, didn’t, dog, door, draw, during, early, easy, ever, fall, farm, fast, field, figure, fire, fish, five, friends, ground, happened, heard, himself, hold, horse, hours, however, hundred, I’ll, king, knew, listen, low, map, mark, measure, money, morning, music, north, notice, numeral, order, passed, pattern, piece, plan, problem, products, pulled, questions, reached, red, remember, rock, room, seen, several, ship, short, since, sing, slowly, south, space, stand, step, sun, sure, table, today, told, top, toward, town, travel, true, unit, upon, usually, voice, vowel, war, waves, whole, wind, wood

5th 100 Fry Sight Words (#401-500) able, ago, among, ball, base, became, behind, boat, box, bread, bring, brought, building, built, cannot, carefully, check, circle, class, clear, common, contain, correct, course, dark, decided, deep, done, dry, English, equation, explain, fact, feel, filled, finally, fine, fly, force, front, full, game, gave, government, green, half, heat, heavy, hot, inches, include, inside, island, known, language, less, machine, material, minutes, note, nothing, noun, object, ocean, oh, pair, person, plane, power, produce, quickly, ran, rest, road, round, rule, scientists, shape, shown, six, size, special, stars, stay, stood, street, strong, surface, system, ten, though, thousands, understand, verb, wait, warm, week, wheels, yes, yet

6th 100 Fry Sight Words (#501-600) anything, arms, beautiful, believe, beside, bill, blue, brother, can’t, cause, cells, center, clothes, dance, describe, developed, difference, direction, discovered, distance, divided, drive, drop, edge, eggs, energy, Europe, exercise, farmers, felt, finished, flowers, forest, general, gone, grass, happy, heart, held, instruments, interest, job, kept, lay, legs, length, love, main, matter, meet, members, million, mind, months, moon, paint, paragraph, past, perhaps, picked, present, probably, race, rain, raised, ready, reason, record, region, represent, return, root, sat, shall, sign, simple, site, sky, soft, square, store, subject, suddenly, sum, summer, syllables, teacher, test, third, train, wall, weather, west, whether, wide, wild, window, winter, wish, written
7th 100 Fry Sight Words (#601-700) act, Africa, age, already, although, amount, angle, appear, baby, bear, beat, bed, bottom, bright, broken, build, buy, care, case, cat, century, consonant, copy, couldn’t, count, cross, dictionary, died, dress, either, everyone, everything, exactly, factors, fight, fingers, floor, fraction, free, French, gold, hair, hill, hole, hope, ice, instead, iron, jumped, killed, lake, laughed, lead, let’s, lot, melody, metal, method, middle, milk, moment, nation, natural, outside, per, phrase, poor, possible, pounds, pushed, quiet, quite, remain, result, ride, rolled, sail, scale, section, sleep, smiled, snow, soil, solve, someone, son, speak, speed, spring, stone, surprise, tall, temperature, themselves, tiny, trip, type, village, within, wonder

8th 100 Fry Sight Words (#701-800) alone, art, bad, bank, bit, break, brown, burning, business, captain, catch, caught, cents, child, choose, clean, climbed, cloud, coast, continued, control, cool, cost, decimal, desert, design, direct, drawing, ears, east, else, engine, England, equal, experiment, express, feeling, fell, flow, foot, garden, gas, glass, God, grew, history, human, hunting, increase, information, itself, joined, key, lady, law, least, lost, maybe, mouth, party, pay, period, plains, please, practice, president, received, report, ring, rise, row, save, seeds, sent, separate, serve, shouted, single, skin, statement, stick, straight, strange, students, suppose, symbols, team, touch, trouble, uncle, valley, visit, wear, whose, wire, woman, wrote, yard, you’re, yourself
9th 100 Fry Sight Words (#801-900) addition, army, bell, belong, block, blood, blow, board, bones, branches, cattle, chief, compare, compound, consider, cook, corner, crops, crowd, current, doctor, dollars, eight, electric, elements, enjoy, entered, except, exciting, expect, famous, fit, flat, fruit, fun, guess, hat, hit, indicate, industry, insects, interesting, Japanese, lie, lifted, loud, major, mall, meat, mine, modern, movement, necessary, observe, park, particular, planets, poem, pole, position, process, property, provide, rather, rhythm, rich, safe, sand, science, sell, send, sense, seven, sharp, shoulder, sight, silent, soldiers, spot, spread, stream, string, suggested, supply, swim, terms, thick, thin, thus, tied, tone, trade, tube, value, wash, wasn’t, weight, wife, wings, won’t
10th 100 Fry Sight Words (#901-1000) action, actually, adjective, afraid, agreed, ahead, allow, apple, arrived, born, bought, British, capital, chance, chart, church, column, company, conditions, corn, cotton, cows, create, dead, deal, death, details, determine, difficult, division, doesn’t, effect, entire, especially, evening, experience, factories, fair, fear, fig, forward, France, fresh, Greek, gun, hoe, huge, isn’t, led, level, located, march, match, molecules, northern, nose, office, opposite, oxygen, plural, prepared, pretty, printed, radio, repeated, rope, rose, score, seat, settled, shoes, shop, similar, sir, sister, smell, solution, southern, steel, stretched, substances, suffix, sugar, tools, total, track, triangle, truck, underline, various, view, Washington, we’ll, western, win, women, workers, wouldn’t, wrong, yellow
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Dolch Sight Words List | Sight Words: Teach Your Child to Read

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The Dolch Sight Words list is the most commonly used set of sight words. Educator Dr. Edward William Dolch developed the list in the 1930s-40s by studying the most frequently occurring words in children’s books of that era. The list contains 220 “service words” plus 95 high-frequency nouns. These words comprise 80% of the words you would find in a typical children’s book and 50% of the words found in writing for adults. Once a child knows this list of words, it makes reading much easier, because the child can then focus his or her attention on the remaining words.

The Dolch words are commonly divided into groups by grade level, ranging from pre-kindergarten to third grade, with a separate list of nouns. There are a total of 315 Dolch Sight Words.

Pre-K Dolch Sight Words
(40 words)
a, and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my, not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow, you
Kindergarten Dolch Sight Words
(52 words)
all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yes
First Grade Dolch Sight Words
(41 words)
after, again, an, any, as, ask, by, could, every, fly, from, give, going, had, has, her, him, his, how, just, know, let, live, may, of, old, once, open, over, put, round, some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when
Second Grade Dolch Sight Words
(46 words)
always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, don’t, fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your
Third Grade Dolch Sight Words
(41 words)
about, better, bring, carry, clean, cut, done, draw, drink, eight, fall, far, full, got, grow, hold, hot, hurt, if, keep, kind, laugh, light, long, much, myself, never, only, own, pick, seven, shall, show, six, small, start, ten, today, together, try, warm
Noun Dolch Sight Words
(95 words)
apple, baby, back, ball, bear, bed, bell, bird, birthday, boat, box, boy, bread, brother, cake, car, cat, chair, chicken, children, Christmas, coat, corn, cow, day, dog, doll, door, duck, egg, eye, farm, farmer, father, feet, fire, fish, floor, flower, game, garden, girl, goodbye, grass, ground, hand, head, hill, home, horse, house, kitty, leg, letter, man, men, milk, money, morning, mother, name, nest, night, paper, party, picture, pig, rabbit, rain, ring, robin, Santa Claus, school, seed, sheep, shoe, sister, snow, song, squirrel, stick, street, sun, table, thing, time, top, toy, tree, watch, water, way, wind, window, wood
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He smoked, saw of coffee and never did not recharge. He smoked two packs a day, considered a car his favorite sport, and one could guess about the Siberian health of his grandfather only by transparent ice in his eyes, but even those melted at every smile and spilled in a flood of kindness over narrow cheekbones and folds at the mouth, turning into mustache, beard, unexpectedly gray on a still young face. Vasily Dmitrievich The original - it was his last name, first name, patronymic, he taught ingenious science in the main building of Moscow University, and now he was sitting in the teacher's room in front of a computer with a running line on the monitor "Hurry to do good!" and looked at its right corner, where the exact time was pulsing. Vasily Dmitrievich Original was waiting for a graduate student, whom he was appointed head of.

Meanwhile, the graduate student hurried to his interview, walking quickly from the subway, also looking at her watch, only not on the computer, but on her wrist. Her appearance was simple, thousands of such girls walk the streets of the capital, with an open, regular face, a tall, regular figure; only at Lyuba Nesnitskaya - that was the name of the graduate student - this simplicity was reinforced by a long, light-blond braid, tightly braided and dangling below the back in time with hurried steps. Lyuba Nesnitskaya will soon be twenty-three years old, she has already graduated from the university and has made her choice - to connect her fate with him as a professor.

She quickened her pace: then, after the meeting, she had to do a lot of things, call someone and, to top it off, catch the train, because it was the month of August, and she lived with her parents in a country house almost an hour away from the Okruzhnaya road.

She ran into the teaching room without slowing down; so that the Original, turning to her on a revolving stool, saw her out of breath, ruddy, still flying by inertia, and unintentionally spoke in a velvety semi-bass:

- Yes, you sit down, young lady, - seated her next to him and began to show pictures on the monitor.

When she caught her breath, she got down to business:

– Well, give me your materials. Do you want some tea? We have it easily.

A minute later the electric kettle was noisy. Tea bags in plastic cups were filled with boiling water, and a pack of refined sugar appeared next to the computer.

- Come on, - The original dropped three pieces into a glass and took them in his hands, - let's sit in our leather salon.

In the hall on the second floor there were leather sofas and armchairs from Stalin's times and a round massive table of the same era, and from the window there was a view of the floor of Moscow. Sat down, the Original lit a cigarette.

- Do you smoke? suggested to her.

She shook her head.

– Well, well, – he removed the pack, – tell me, Love… mm-yes, an interesting name. Love, oh-ho .. how did you get on this topic?

Nesnitskaya began to speak, and to her surprise she spoke easily, without stammering, without her usual initial embarrassment, and thoughts suddenly from somewhere took an apple to her head. The original smoked, screwed up his eyes in a smile, occasionally nodded and put in a word. Nesnitskaya suddenly caught herself listening not to his words, but to his voice, and from the sound of this voice all her muscles relax, it turns out that they were constrained, she softens all over, gradually, as when smoothly immersed in a warm bath. Embarrassed and joyful, she smiles at V.D.’s successful witticism - that’s how she already christened him to herself, - he also laughs easily and easily offers to give her a lift to the metro by car or wherever she needs, because it’s time for him to leave. Nesnitskaya recalls the dacha, how far it is, and says that there is more to the metro than she would like and gives the Original materials on the topic with all her data.

The car did not play a big role in Vasily Dmitrievich's way of life, but formed a kind of conglomerate with him, serving as a kind of joint between him and the environment. It is superfluous to mention the worldly - well-known - benefits brought by a box of four wheels in a metropolis that is three, four, six times superior to other dwarf states with ambitions directly opposite to their dwarfism. The machine was also a means of courting the beautiful half of the anthroposphere. Agree, to open the door to the lady - she is usually without a car - before departure, and then upon arrival, and even give her a hand to help her out - this is already the first step. And sitting in Vasily Dmitrievich's salon, she completely and completely fell under the charm of his person in his small mobile state, saturated with his smells and melodies of selected cassettes. He called the passengers on board his flying Dutchman nothing more than inhabitants. And being an integral liver, spleen - I will justify this below - the machine still became a constructive lever of his plots, and a great literary passion was known behind the Original, he wrote a lot, wrote with inspiration, about different things, but always about the main thing - about himself. It cannot be otherwise, such is the law of writing, remember Flaubert: "Madame Bovary is me." And why "his car" was a liver-spleen? Yes, because if something wheezed or coughed in the engine, he quit his service, his wife, even if she was on a maternity bed, and ran to the mechanic. So they run to emergency dental care. And then the car is not a spleen, but a tooth. Favorite wisdom tooth.

Vasily Dmitrievich realized this long ago and forgot it long ago. He took Nesnitskaya to the metro in a roundabout way, through Zhmerinka to Kyiv.

“I’m going fishing for three days tomorrow,” he merged with his four-wheeled Siamese twin. - Deaf places, on Seliger, on the islands ... have you been?

- Somehow it didn't happen...

- We lost a lot. There is such an eel - a delicacy! They smoke it - lick your fingers, hmm. Do you want to go?

- What are you! - Nesnitskaya was frightened: she met him half an hour ago. - So many things! Although I also love all kinds of wilderness ...

- Well, as you wish - The original slowed down at the subway, got out and opened Nesnitskaya's door. Like any normal person, he knew that bestial gender equality had deprived a woman of the main air of her existence: flowers with a messenger, coffee in bed, giving a coat in the wardrobe and opening the car door. He knew and, as best he could, corrected the situation on his own.

Nesnitskaya left. He wanted to add something else, but the approaching cars trumpeted: it was necessary to give way - he waved his hand and, squealing with blocks, sped away.

Nesnitskaya looked around in bewilderment. Where is she? Where did you get? She seemed to have to go somewhere. I tried to remember my hundred cases, for which it was necessary to urgently run, negotiate, call - it turns out that it is not necessary. She has already come from everywhere and for good. From here, the train of her life goes no further. Where, how long and what to wander?

She stood at a loss… He called her to come with him… Why didn't she go? She could not get into the subway, figure out where the entrance is, where the exit is, and why the exit became the entrance? Why didn’t she go with him… Now just wait for him to return from Seliger…

Lost and joyful Love finally entered the subway through the exit.

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The original, leaving Lyubov Nesnitskaya, dragged along the roadside, deciding where to go. He had just passed thirty-eight years, ten of which he spent in a good marriage, crowned with a daughter as beloved as his only. He was good because the Original did not even think of getting a divorce; he was held by the example of his parents, and he consciously or unconsciously followed their example in everything. And the Original would never have divorced his wife, with whom he was related, as with a leg or an arm, but they are born with a leg and an arm, if the power had not changed, there would not have been an invasion of herbalifers and other soul-body rescuers, and his wife would not have spun would be in a muddy whirlpool of herbalife to such a condition that she filed for divorce. He left, leaving her, or rather, his daughter, an apartment, rented - also an apartment, but smaller, on the avenue of the leader of the peoples, and there he soon had a new, as it were, wife. No, Vasily Dmitrievich was not a womanizer, and what kind of womanizer can we talk about in a person who has faithfully spent the best years in a cloth marriage? He just had a kind soul, and when he came across an unfortunate, destitute again by some womanizer, and even a pretty woman, he felt sorry for her. The woman threw herself into tears and onto his chest. At this point, Vasily Dmitrievich’s heart was completely torn to shreds and he could not stop in his compassion and desire to correct such a world o a great injustice. In addition, unexpectedly for himself, at his age, he discovered that he had a certain hypnotizing effect on the weaker sex, and the softer and quieter he spoke to him, the stronger this effect was. And having discovered this, he wanted to check it, once, twice - the trouble began. The rapid change of women (after the third) led to the fact that faces, voices were blurred into one continuous stream, and how one woman differs from another: the same hands, legs, charms, requests for affectionate words, confessions, oaths. Aaahhh! He was carried with one desire - to stop. Therefore, on the avenue of the leader of the peoples, and for some time now the brake Elvira has lived on the rights of his wife. But there was the last place on earth where he was now drawn. He suddenly remembered why he had to leave work: because of a fax to Cambridge, and he gleefully pulled up at an express service agency. Having spent a good three quarters of an hour to send one unfortunate page - with this technique it is always the case, then like an airliner, it will instantly deliver to the target, then it will jam, and then it is already more reliable on trotters - sighing heavily, Vasily Dmitrievich returned aboard his flying Dutchman, but and now, despite the vacuum in his stomach, he was not drawn to the leader's avenue. There, for sure, the smelly-sweet impression of his new ward, like warmth from a stove heated with firewood, will dissipate. And he went to spend the night with a friend who lived in a big old communal apartment overlooking the old Moscow rooftops. The sight always gave him certain visions of angels and chimney sweeps; he even, due to his literary inclination, composed a philosophical dialogue between these two principles, the attributes of old roofs. But today, looking out the long unwashed window—the comrade was a bachelor—he didn’t think about the angels, he thought about how great it would be for them to walk along the roofs with Nesnitskaya, holding hands tightly, at such an hour of the first twilight.

3

During the three days of Authentic fishing, the memory of him came over Love like a pleasant wave in those moments when she was left alone or romances were broadcast on the air, and specifically about the C grade, the bell, “this ringing speaks of love. ” On purpose, it was broadcast twice, first as a male, then as a female. And both times in the air, as on a shroud, the image of V. D. Weaved out and dispelled.

Podgaetsky appeared... Oh, yes, Vasilek Podgaetsky, her official fiancé. In the autumn, a wedding was planned behind the scenes. She was supposed to call him yesterday from the city, but she never called. Vasilyok is older than Nesnitskaya by three years, but this is according to his passport, but according to what he experienced, three hundred years. He was in Chechen captivity as a result of a shell shock, miraculously escaped with a comrade, miraculously ran to his own, a comrade died on the way from wounds, and for this captivity, for torment, a daring escape and victory, and staying alive there is already a victory, Love for them admired and regretted. The seal of shell shock, captivity, squeeze remained indelible on Podgaetsky, despite the current prosperity. He always wore a camouflage jacket and no matter what he talked about, everything ended with stories about the pit where they were sitting, about prophylactic beatings, about how they threw food at them like dogs, if they threw it at all, urinated on them, etc. , and how he got worms on his burns. He spoke to a frenzy, to a scream, then became quiet, as after a drinking bout. Otherwise, he was a completely balanced person, and the trials he endured greatly developed his spiritual qualities, concepts of honor, and comradely mutual assistance. They met with Nesnitskaya for a year, the two of them were never bored, and he openly made plans for the future. She didn't say much about it, but she didn't mind either. Her heart was beating evenly, she had no doubt: with Vaska, whom she nicknamed "Soldier - porridge from an ax", you can go into reconnaissance, even into such an indefinite one as marriage.

However, yesterday I had no doubts… Today the fuss of “Porridge from an ax” around the dacha got on my nerves, she tried to hide it with exaggerated politeness. But Podgaetsky no longer crossed the horizon of her consciousness. He remained behind his line, like behind barbed wire. Pity disappeared, compassion for his torments did not touch; how hard it turned out to be crushing her, and now she freed herself, sighed lightly, as if a heavy bulky closet had been taken out of her heart, and so much space had been cleared . .. to think, think about V. D.

And exactly three days later, hour by hour, minute by minute, when he returned from his seligers, Love, restlessly loitering around the dacha, saw him again on the shroud of air, picked up a cell phone, it lit up with a green neon firefly and emitted a shattered a quote from Mozart:

- Hello!

And then the words cut off, a pause, a failure. An abyss where there were no words, and they were not needed - everything splashed out in this calf, mutual "alyo!"

The first to pull himself together Original:

- I got acquainted with your materials. Eh-heh, not without common sense. But a lot needs to be discussed...

“Listen, Vasily Danilovich,” Lyubov was not breathing.

- Dmitrievich, V.D. was not breathing

- ... yes, sorry. I have a cell phone, the card burns out instantly. Talking is zero. But I'll be in town tomorrow. Do you want me to come?

It is amazing that they were able to arrange a meeting, giving the exact time and place.

They met on Sparrow Hills, went to some abandoned embankment in the backyards of the Kremlin estates, and for a long time, passionately talked about literature. What else? No phone card would be enough. Literary conversation dried up by dusk, to start another topic, personal, brewing for the previous three days, and during the academic conversation, no one dared. Nesnitskaya was tired of having to say smart things all the time and froze wild stupidity:

- Well, I have to go.

The original became animated, as if delighted: dispersing is also a way out of the situation, and, at her request, took her to the subway, not near; but Nesnitskaya didn’t get out of the car near the metro, rubbed her forehead and repeated:

- I also wanted to ...

- What?

- I don't remember.

- Well, think about it, young lady, - Vasily Dmitrievich said peacefully with his invariable peaceful smile and lit a cigarette with his invariable refined carelessness.

Lyuba sighed. She forgot all the words. Ask her now what your name is, she would be confused.

“Hmmm,” said the Original, drowning in puffs of smoke, “well, sit down for a minute.

What kind of talk is there.

Put out the cigarette in the ashtray and got out of the car.

On the spot near the subway (in Europe, the original witness, on such spots the central square of other towns is located), there was, as always, a lively trade. The flower girl's kiosk in this scurrying swarm of people towered as a motionless oasis of bright, alien to the Moscow landscape, almost tropical colors. The original chose the most beautiful - a tea rose. It did not call out red roses with their pretensions of fatal passion or tear-jerking fatality.

He got into the car and placed the rose on the lap of Love, who was humbly waiting for him. Then he let her go, as ordered, at the subway, without asking anything, without demanding, in the almost firm hope that he planted a fiery seed in her heart.

4

Lyubov Nesnitskaya's former life revolved in the usual wheel - the dacha, the electric train, Podgaetsky's calls - but the wheel was already moving by inertia, and she felt before she realized that it would soon stop completely and irrevocably. With some questions, the mother turned, suddenly distant, departed into another, past life, - Lyuba looked at her with a tense look: what does she need? what little things ...

And she went into herself to return to that moment - now it is carved in the granite of eternal memory - when she sat down in leather chairs and began to drink tea with V.D. or when a tea rose lay on her knees.

Podgaetsky came from somewhere. I had to walk with him through the forest. Oh, that foolish politeness! Nesnitskaya listened to him inattentively, answered inappropriately, she was tormented that there was no more pretext to meet with V.D., and she would not live to see the beginning of the course. Podgaetsky, according to the old law, took her by the hand, drew her in, began to hug her - she looked at him dumbfounded, turned away, did not allow herself to be kissed.

- What's wrong with you? Got sick? You are mine…

“Strange,” Love pushed him away with unexpected force, “one and the same person, if you look at him, when you love and when you don’t love, these are two different people.” Why is it no longer a pity for Vaska for the brutal captivity, shell shock, pit? In the end, there is a war going on in the country - the business of men, hundreds of guys are dying, he was even lucky. Vaska? So he, too, is Vasily. She is between two Vasilyevs. No, Vasily is only one. And isn't it better to be honest...

"Go away," Nesnitskaya said dryly, "and don't come back." Do not call.

- What are you? Met who? When did you have time? I'm with you, as if on a watch ... Something this business does not whisper to me. Ahh, got it. You went to the new leader. Did he look at you?

- It's all the same. There's nothing more for you to catch here. Go, build your own life...

– So, go and build. And you return the motor to me, from the left chest. Don't be foolish, Lyubanya, - he resolutely pulled her, but ran into her exposed elbow. She broke free and, stumbling over snags and roots, holding her scythe so as not to get tangled in the branches, ran away.

“Don’t come to me… if you love me,” she shouted to Podgaetsky, turning around as she walked and covering her face with her hand from whipping branches.

Tea was already served on the veranda. Love saw this through the window, smoothed her tousled hair with her palms and joined the tea party. Mother's question "Where is Vasya?" she didn't hear.

She sat at the table and saw the edge of herself in an old mirror in an ornate frame that hung at the entrance. It always hung here, and Lyuba's place was always here, as in the fairy tale about Masha and the three bears, but, it turns out, her place is not here, but there, with V. D. Where is he? Why doesn't he call? And what excuse to invent, even embroidered with white thread, to call him? Just say "what a wonderful weather today"? Or "I can't live without you"? No! Rather, yes. But it's scary and embarrassing! And what suffering because of this shame and fear! She barely restrained herself from walking up and knocking the mirror to the floor. Then it would fall and break into sharp fragments, like her life, yesterday clear, orderly, with an imperturbable tomorrow. Only the frame of everyday life kept them together, but move it a little, and the fragments will restlessly spread in all directions. In the meantime, each mirror let a sunbeam into her eyes, blinded and burned, and it was impossible to figure out what to do, so that no one would feel sorry for Podgaetsky, what was he to blame for? - not to hurt, but first of all, to yourself. But this was precisely what was impossible more than anything else, because there, behind the sharp fragments of her life, lay her other life, final, new, authentic, which she blindly sought. Life with V. D. Their love and happiness. And as Saint Padre Pius said, “Where there is love, there is God”.... And unhypocritically create love for each other. ..

Love still swayed, waving its hands – confused wings – and barefoot, smooth foot with a thin marble ankle and fashionable blue manicure stepped on broken glass, not feeling cuts, but mistaking sharp pain for sharpness feeling of happiness.

5

And happiness came true – VD called. His pretext will meet ... however, what pretext can we talk about, why does a man need him if he has the right to take the first step given to him by nature, society and morality? It is a woman who needs to be tormented, deciding to take this step, and how not to be tormented, violating natural law?

Nesnitskaya and the Original met, wandered around the city, embellished with fountains, flower beds, lights - why didn’t they notice this before? in two ways, remember the name of Nesnitskaya, again brought her a rose, invariably a tea one, treated her to coffee, pies with clever speeches, however, not in that mentoring tone, as at the beginning. Nesnitskaya looked at him as a being of a special order, which, in a certain sense, the Original undoubtedly was, but we will see this later. The only thing to which their relationship developed was to the point that he drove Love not to the metro, but to the gates of the dacha. He held the steering wheel with one finger, hummed romances, hummed very harmoniously, with style and manner, and smoked a lot.

There were about two hundred meters left before the gates, which means that in a minute they will part, when Lyubov, plucking up courage, said:

- And in general, Vasily Dmitrievich, I want to tell you, yes, you yourself know that ... - but then the gasoline of courage came out.

- What? asked Vasily Dmitrievich ingratiatingly.

Love was silent.

– Nuuuuuuu, – he drawled disappointedly, – intrigued and quit. They don't do that. Now negotiate.

- But you know! Love hesitated.

- I don't know anything!

“You don’t know that I love you,” Love exhaled, and the soul left her; The original slammed on the brakes, she was thrown forward, then back, and she hit the headrest painfully.

The original expected anything but this. He drove past the gate. Stopped at the forest outside the village:

- Repeat what you said?

“I love you,” she said with only her lips.

Only then did he relax, breathed a sigh of relief, began to reproach her for her long silence: he couldn’t break the ice because of the “no novels in the service” setting, he was happy and showered a l kiss her face, hands, earrings, tight braid, saying:

- My Love... My Love came to me... and what a love! Nesnitskaya! I never dreamed of such a thing! And no one!

And then, when the words had already ended, he did not let her go for a long time, holding her head on his shoulder.

And as if on purpose, the sky, as if in the ABC of romance, was dotted with stars, and the moon was entering the full moon phase.

Three zodiac signs for love at first sight in 2023 - check date of birth

Love at first sight exists, and the romantic Rabbit intends to prove it in practice to certain signs of the Zodiac. Get ready for some very unexpected and interesting events as 2023 will make some of us feel like Hollywood movie heroes. About who is lucky in his personal life, the horoscope tells.

Taurus (April 21 — May 20)

Being mundane people in every sense of the word, Taurus does not want to hear about love at first sight. First, you need to check all candidates for the seriousness and sincerity of feelings, arrange a test with a family dinner with your parents, eat a pound of salt with a new acquaintance, and only then relax a little. But not in 2023! It will happen that this time an avalanche of vivid feelings will cover you with your head.

It will be useless to resist. Taurus will have to put aside natural caution and trust their intuition. Do not worry, because the inner voice will give the right clue. You will most likely face your destiny while doing certain things, such as taking your car in for repairs, getting a bank loan, or handing over important work papers. It is in such circumstances that Taurus will suddenly discover the very person who will strike them on the spot at first sight. Do not rush to retreat and at least hint about your interest by resorting to light flirting. Be sure: you will be reciprocated, because fate has prepared an impressive romance for Taurus ( see also: Features of national flirting: how they show sympathy in different countries).

Leo (July 23 - August 22)

Passionate and romantic Leos fall in love with pretty strangers quite often. At least once a month. However, you rarely go beyond light flirting, which is just to keep yourself in good shape. In 2023, the stars will converge in a single intention to throw you true love, designed to confuse all plans and decisively invade the bachelor life of a lion.

With absolute probability, an unexpected meeting will happen at one of the social events. It is there that the Lions have every chance to meet a person whom they cannot pass by. Keep in mind that you will have to show your initiative, since the future of the relationship will depend on this. Throw aside the excitement and discuss with the person that worries you about some trifle: the weather, a picture hanging nearby, or a performance you saw. But do not go too far with enthusiasm, because sometimes the Lions are very assertive. Keep your distance and don't forget about a slight touch of mystery. The half destined for you by fate in the near future will definitely not stand.

Capricorn (December 22 - January 19)

In 2023, careerists and pragmatists Capricorns, who have long ceased to believe in a great and bright feeling, will certainly reconsider their life principles. The first cynics and skeptics are guaranteed a fateful acquaintance that will stun and make the heart beat faster. The stars advise you not to yawn and look around carefully, because love at first sight can wait for you anywhere.

Most likely, an important person will appear on the horizon very unexpectedly, at a time when Capricorns are not ready to give their phone number, for example, on a morning run, when going to the nearest store, or even in the midst of an evening traffic jam.