About the book: 2023 / "Who in their right mind would marry an elderly girl of twenty-five? Only widowers take such people, and even then not in her case.” If a girl was born frankly ugly, and even with a rare “flaw” on her face, then at best she will face a lonely old age, and at worst, a marriage with a village fool. And for that you will have to be grateful all your life. And to go against your parents’ will means to lose everything and learn to survive alone, in a big, unfriendly world. But who said that freedom comes easy??