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give up lunch and dinner

Lunch and dinner

There's Damian

and his Marina

There's Damian

and his Marina

Love has got

them floored yet

Sixteen years of

fond attention

Is beyond our comprehension

Aren't you bored yet?

There's Damian

and his Marina

Romeo and Juliet

Cupid seems to

have them leaping

But their teachers should be

keeping them in school yet

Them in school yet

I wish it was

tomorrow morning.

Kolya says we'll go to the

theater when we get to Kiev.

All we have to do is

apply for the tickets.

We'll have three

whole days in Kiev.

We shall see everything.

It's been a good year.

Scholarship to the university,

of course, means the most.

There was a medal

for marksmanship.

And now this vacation.

We'll be separated for a year.

You'll be getting a scholarship

the following year.

But it's this year

I'm thinking about.

That's a long time.

I don't think it

is at our age.

You don't think so?

How strange.

What are you saying, Marina?

Nothing. I don't want

to talk about it.

It's odd you don't think a year

away from me is a long time.

It doesn't worry you?

No.

All right.

You don't have to keep

saying it over and over.

Are you sure you feel

about me as you used to?

I don't like this talk.

It -- it's bad.

It's only natural that I --

it's not natural at all.

It's not like you.

I've loved you since I was

old enough to see you.

I will love you until I die.

That's the way it is,

and there's no need

to talk about it.

You mean you'll never

talk about it?

You'll never tell me?

I'll tell you in my own time.

But I'll not tell

you to waste time.

Look here, Marina.

You and I are -- are

like one person.

And I always thought you wanted

both of us to be educated and --

I didn't mean that.

Of course I want you to

go to the university.

Of course.

It'd make me sad

if you didn't --

and ashamed.

But it wouldn't matter.

I'd go anyway.

I'm a citizen of this country.

I intend to go forward

with it and --

and to give it all I have.

I have strong

feelings about it.

You'll come along

with those feelings.

But... You don't

come before them.

I understand.

I feel the same way for

myself, for both of us.

I was being foolish.

I only wanted to be with you.

I'm proud you got the

scholarship, of course.

You'll be a great man,

and the whole district

will be proud of you.

You'll have medals.

I think we'll go to the

theater every night.

That's too often.

And we'll grow old together,

and I'll be a beautiful

old woman and very kind.

Oh, I'm sure of it.

My grandchildren will love me,

and you will, too,

more than ever.

What's wrong with that?

Plenty of people

grow old together

and have a fine

life behind them.

I didn't say there was

anything wrong with it.

I shall buy baby

dresses in Kiev.

For whom?

For our first...

Our grandchildren.

Oh.

You'll, um, you'll put the

dresses away for a while?

Yes. Of course

that's what I mean.

When we get home, you and

I should call a meeting,

and the five of us should

go over all the plans

for our journey tomorrow.

Don't you think, Kolya?

I don't need to plan

to get up and get dressed

and eat my breakfast.

I know how to do that.

I'm getting tired of hearing you

children talk about this trip.

I'm only going because

Father made me.

Oh.

Oh, I thought it was because

-- well, because me.

I-I mean us.

Don't you like us?

No.

Oh.

What's the matter

with you, Clavdia?

I-I have a choking

sensation in my chest.

You eat too much.

You usually do.

It's not at all that.

It's my emotions in the chest.

Clavdia, you're a throwback.

What's that? What do you mean?

Somebody who doesn't

belong to their own time.

Ours is a new world, Clavdia.

You don't belong in it.

Oh, I see.

You mean I'm rather

old-fashioned

and romantic, rather.

Yeah.

No.

I've told you -- you

cannot come along.

I'm always too young.

I'm too young for everything.

Well, someday, when everybody

else is too old for everything,

you'll be just old enough.

Take care of the puppy.

I'll bring everybody

a present.

Don't get your feet wet.

And take care of yourselves.

Goodbye.

Goodbye!

Papa.

Goodbye.

The first time we have ever

been separated, Grandpa.

It's only for a short time.

Good morning.

Clumsy in the body are

those clumsy in the head.

You wake Grandpa and I'll --

oh, I'm gonna kill you,

you nasty little thing.

I'm gonna kill you.

Drink your milk, Clavdia.

You will now find it more

comfortable to get up.

Goodbye, Father.

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Seven times last night

you said goodbye.

We'll be back soon.

We'll try to get

along without you.

Well, goodbye!

Oh, Mother.

We'll be back soon.

Oh, have a good time, son.

We'll miss you.

Damian?

Damian!

Coming!

Good journey, Marina.

Good journey.

Good journey! Good journey!

Good journey!

Good journey to us all!

Kolya!

Good morning, Kolya.

- Good morning!

- Hello.

Good morning, good

morning, good morning.

Hey!

Good morning, Clavdia.

What's the matter with you?

With your face?

You look so foolish.

Well, you never said "good

morning" to me before.

Good morning!

Good morning, Kolya.

Good morning!

I don't like guns, Kolya.

Then don't have one.

I don't like the

noise they make.

Who does? Why are

you carrying it?

If you look at me, Clavdia, you

will see that I'm in uniform.

Men in uniform carry guns.

Uniforms, air force,

Union of Soviet

Socialist Republics.

Remember now?

Oh, you're teasing me.

Well, don't play with

that gun, please.

I intend to use it.

When we near the

end of the trip,

I intend to kill someone

and leave their carcass

for the hawks.

You want to help?

Oh, no. No. I will stop you.

I-I will sacrifice myself.

Oh, I couldn't stand to

think of you lying in jail,

a murderer, tortured

with conscience.

Oh, Kolya.

I've got to kill him. But who?

Damian.

Two weeks of you, child, is

going to be a long, long time.

If I eat too much jam

Mother, look how young I am

Mother dear, please recall

That at one time

you were small

If I'm hard on my clothes

and I do not wipe my nose

Parents dear, please recall

That at one time

you were small

Tiddle-ee-um, tiddle-ee-um

Tiddle-ee-um, tum,

tum, tum, tum

We're the younger generation

and the future of the nation

If I look as I pass into

every looking glass

Parents mine, have no fear

Just go back some 20 years

If I stay out of doors and

don't help with kitchen chores

Parents mine, have no fear

Just go back some 20 years

Tiddle-ee-um, tiddle-ee-um

Tiddle-ee-um, tum,

tum, tum, tum

We're the younger generation

and the future of the nation

If to school I am late, please

don't scold and agitate

Parents dear, isn't it true

One time you were

that way too?

If I make too much noise

and I hit back at the boys

Parents dear, isn't it true

One time you were

that way too?

Tiddle-ee-um, tiddle-ee-um

Tiddle-ee-um, tum,

tum, tum, tum

We're the younger generation

and the future of the nation

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