I can’t believe she’s going to be two soon
And there’s something else I can’t believe. I can’t believe this is happening at all.
In Ukrainian, the words have grammatical gender. The war is feminine, it’s she, just like my daughter, and so I still recall repeating this phrase lots, lots of times: I can’t believe she’s going to be two soon.
Unlike now, I used to say this with such happiness and admiration, and with so much love.
When my daughter was about to turn two, we’d already …