In middle of the journey of our days
I found that I was in a darksome wood —
The right road lost and vanished in the maze.
Ah me! How hard to make it understood
How rough that wood was, wild, and terrible:
By the mere thought my terror is renewed.
— Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy
It’s known that Dante believed that the middle of
life is age 35. All most important events in Sergey’s
life took place just around this important 35-year
mark. Drug addiction and, as a result, criminal
record and sending to corrective labor colony.
Release from places of detention and the drug
relapse which has followed it. And with the help of
faith in God, the hope for one’s own strength and
love for one’s family — rehabilitation and clean life,
without alcohol and drugs.
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