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Wedding "in the area of ATO" ...

I wanted to write about the wedding, but from a different perspective - about love between two loving hearts, which are at opposite ends of the globe, at different times, with dissimilar cultures and languages. Girl Tale lived in a peaceful country called Ukraine, and the guy Bin has worked in economic development, a dynamically growing country called China.

If it were not for one thing.

The wedding was celebrated "in the area of ATO" ...

She has always been not similar to peers, classmates, she was avoiding any contact, was closed for the majority of people around. For years, the class teacher did not even know that girl Tale draws beautifully, knows how to play the piano, sings beautifully with her tender voice, like class teacher did. But Tale created her masterpiece detectives about distant countries and Ukrainians-migrants in Latin America, reading them only to her mother - the best fan and the finest judge of her works.

As she was loving her only child, little child, her mother, of course, praised the work of Tale and prophesied her a great future as a writer, with the understanding that the motivation - is the main mechanism of daughter`s writing evolution. Years passed, and nothing has changed in Tales` life - she was still not like the others. Girls from her class were kissing in the hallways with the boys, walk all nights and were going to the provincial parties.

A Tale lived another life ...

But then came the graduating class - the exams, testing and choice of university and prestigious profession. Tale with her mother traveled through a number of Ukrainian universities and stopped in Lugansk because here exotic languages like Japanese, Hebrew, Turkish and Chinese were studied . Here Tales realized that she wanted to understand the incomprehensible language for all residents of the East European Plain.

But the demand for this specialty was crazy, and our heroine in a number of future linguists start to spend her nights and days studying Chinese. It went pretty good, by the way. Teachers` praise inspired Tale in hieroglyphic language exploits and here is the result - a girl Tale already dreaming to go on an internship in China.

And here it is, the long-awaited, incomprehensible and alien China. Flight was, as always in Ukrainian airline, half-starved and hard. But even worse were the Chinese airlines with the crowds of Chinese people, who managed not only to sit, but also to stand in the aisle of the plane. Generally, when a group of students met with a representative of the university - our girls had already been careless about their future, where they would be taken even. After a two-month culture shock, lack of European food dozens of kilograms of weight dropped, programmed-Chinese teachers and the lack of basic living conditions - heating during the cold season, the excess hot water and other things.They learned how to take a shower in 3 minutes, eat noodles, rice with

vegetables and learn Chinese. It was there, in

the southern provinces of China in Meizhou, the girl Tale met Indonesian, American boys, improved her language in the literal and figurative sense: in the morning - Russian, in the afternoon - Chinese, evening was for English and finally night - Ukrainian (yes, homework in the Luhansk University has not been canceled ).

And now the most interesting is coming. And so our girl Tale carried away by languages did not notice that Chinese guy who devotedly looked into her eyes and gave no hint of the manifestation of attention (yes, the Chinese are - they can wait) quietly crept. Together they walked, talked, had small talk, ate in the cafe. Our Chinese guy, let's call him Bin, realized that the girl in front of him, Tale, was the one he had been looking for years. It turned out that she was well-read, played the piano well, she had a delicate thin voice, too humble, gentle and patient ... But most importantly - he saw her inner beauty and realized that she was the only one Tales in the whole world.

But our heroine flew to Ukraine on summer vacation. Bin was waiting for her and hoped for long three months, when she comes back.

Her return was difficult - hard flight, lightning storms delayed flights out of Hong Kong. He did not sleep and did not eat, waiting for her with a bouquet of white lilies in Chengdu. And she came back. Bouquet clearly wilted. But it wasn`t important. Wanted to run, hugging and screaming. But no. The Chinese don`t do this waythey can wait. From the airport in a taxi back, clinging to each

other, but keeping within the limits. In the morning, Bean brought breakfast in Tale`s bed that lived in New Zealand and Malaysian colleagues in the same apartment.

From that moment, our girl and boy decided to be together. Holding their hands in this half a billion Chinese society: a joint evening, returning home on a motorbike, shared weekends somewhere in the midst of nature with friends. Everything seemed to be great. But there were difficulties with the work visa girls Fairy (she too was young for that), and she had to fly away. It was a difficult parting. Bean knew that she would not return. To be with her - he had to fly to Ukraine.

A long winter, they talked on Skype, lived together in their virtual life. But how do you want to live this fate when you a young person, who found his love. And Bean decides to fly to her.

It was May 11, 2014. When war broke out in the southeast of Ukraine (the Ukrainian authorities have called it ATO - anti-terroristic operation). The whole world, with bated breath, watching the events. A Bean flew two times before going by train, without thinking about what will happen to him. Actually, he was thinking, and he was scared, as every normal person would be, however he understood one rule, that love is the feeling that inspires men to do strong actions.

This Chinese guy spent his summers in the area of ATO since 14 May to 19 July.

You may ask: why did it take so long? I'll tell you: under Ukrainian law, firstly, the couple had to go

through a trial period during the month. Then Bean waited for help from the Ukrainian embassy, located in Beijing, which confirmed that he was single. It's another month. So that no "military-political developments in the area ATO" could disrupt normal marriage of young people. And vice versa - are complicated. On the door of the registrar's office announcement: Due to the fact that the fighting is taking place in the area of the ATO, while the registrar's office - twice a week. But love has not been canceled? Long lines at this wonderful institution confirmed that persistent brides and grooms did not change its decision even in the area of the ATO.

But the difficulty in establishing international family did not end there. After the application had to be a week before painting come with a Chinese translator to the registry office and confirm the validity of the questionnaire and persistent intention to realization the dream wedding. But what about the interpreter, who gave their consent to be solid at the appointed time later. By the way, he lived near Lugansk airport - nothing foretold troubles.

The first trouble came when the happy tales and Bean came back with first purchase - air raid on the regional administration.

They have seen and heard the planes, which have become "first sign of war" in Lugansk. Tale and Bean, clinging to one of the buildings, located near the place of fire, already thought about how to survive and not die. Who would have thought that in the 21st millennium Ukrainian aircraft will kill Luhansk - the

inhabitants of their own country? They returned home with weight issues and a lack of answers. I wanted to scream: What are you doing, Aircraft? We want to live, live, live ...

Time has stopped. A brain continued to work - to live on and survive ... Wedding Dress chose dashes when there was shelling and explosions. We have time to enjoy a little bit. And then again to return to real life. One by one, began to close stores. I had to walk along the unbearable heat on the central street of Lugansk - Defense (practically stopped functioning public transportation because the cases of mortar attacks and the death of the drivers and passengers) to go and look for the little things that later were to become important at a wedding ceremony. Thus, in a few short days it was bought wedding details.

Now you need to find room for the ceremony. Special thanks to our "Caucasian" Caterers (though not offended and did not consider it chauvinism) - it was their entertainment agrees to help in holding the festival. They stopped at the "Aquarius" - a very cozy, quiet cultural restaurant on the way to the airport in Lugansk. It seems to me that in this severe time on the occasion of this event the owner was immensely pleased with visitors. But not only happy, but also concerned geographical location in relation to the airport. But more about that later.

What is a wedding without Toastmasters? This is probably the first people (they are now called animators) who left the city in connection with the

beginning of the summer season somewhere in the resort areas of Crimea, the Azov Sea and so on. Finally, we`ve found some. They even managed to work in Stanitsa of Stanichno Luhansk region immediately after the first bombardment in early July. And being on the territory of the militias, to sing the song "One motherland at the table ..".

And of course - the wedding procession !!! The problem was that the "monopolists" in the business of wedding cars lived in Aleksandrovka - the village in the Luhansk, where fierce battles took place. No one gave any guarantees. Therefore, until the last day no one knew whether the cars or the single one is going to be on the wedding.

A wedding procession had to invite guests. It is even more interesting. Planned festivities on 30 relatives and friends from different places of Ukraine, Russia and Georgia. All consented to visit a wedding and persuasion given to them to book seats in the restaurant. But a week before the happy event in the lives of girl Tale and Bin the declines were coming in such order: Moscow (they will not let 25-year-old brother to go in the area ATO); Kiev (problems with trains and shooting in Debaltseve); Dnepropetrovsk (mum after news programs does not let coming); Anthracit (militias confiscate drivers' expensive cars); Lisichansk (afraid to go with small children on the Bahmutskiy way); Kharkiv (the train in the direction of the zone ATO planted young men and sent to fight in the Ukrainian army); Severodonetsk (the town had already been bombed and people were