_For the incurable romantics among us, the power of love to conquer everything cannot be overestimated. And so let us read this gentle, pleasant, warm-hearted tale, knowing as we do that the story it tells is very likely impossible, but yet hoping, perhaps, that it could all end this way._ A thrilling news bulletin, dated September 11, 1996, was recently handed to me by an assistant who is too young to remember the star over Moscow, and it is toward him and others like him that the following history is directed. If it resembles fiction more than it does fact, the similarity is wholly intentional, for it is only through fiction that the past can be brought back to life.…
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