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She swiped them through the flame of a match carefully at first, feeling nothing. Then she held them there longer, expecting them todrip and melt. Instead they turned red and blistered, and she withdrew carefully, watching the skin peel and stand in tiny transparent tents on her fingertips. She was already thinking of a lie to tell her coworkers to explain the blisters. Iron. Sizzling, spitting oil in the skillet. Napalm. She laughed at the thought. Napalm is never reassuring, and only reassuring things made for good lies-food, ironing, domesticity.  \nThere was a knock on the bathroom door. “Galka, are you asleep in there?” Masha asked.“Come on, I have to go. \"  \nShe blew out the match.“Will be right out. \"  \n\"Are you smoking in there?\"  \n\"No,” she said, and opened the door.  \nMasha, pink and sweating, bustled past her, brushing her enormous pregnant belly against Galina, already hiking up her housecoat.  \nGalina exited hastily. Masha's pregnancy bothered her-not just because she was only eighteen and not because Masha's husband-to-be was still in the army, serving the last of his two draft years. The impending arrival of the squalling pink thing that would steal the remnants of her sister's affection away from her hurt more than she would dare to admit-their mother and grandmother were so excited about the baby. Galina pretended that she was, too, and burned herself with matches when nobody was watching as a punishment for being so selfish. She hoped she wouldn't get into trouble again.  \nShe blew on her fingers and headed for the room she shared with her mother and grandmother; Masha now had a room of her own, all the more reason for resentment and consequent weeping at her own monstrosity. The grandmother was away, at the hospital again and perhaps not ever coming back home, and the mother was on the phone in the hallway. Galina relished the moments of solitude. She stretched on her bed and listened to the familiar noises of the railroad outside, and to the mumbling of her mother's voice in the hallway. Quite despite her intentions, she listened to her mother's words.  \nOf course she's too young, the mother said. But better too early than too late, and you know Galina: she's an old maid and I doubt there would be any grandchildren out of her, and really, I wish she would just have one out of wedlock, nowadays who really cares. I know she won't find a husband and I've resigned to that. But if she would just have a baby…Oh, I know, I told her a million times. But she's stubborn like you wouldn't believe, and I doubt any man would put up with that for long.  \nThere was nothing there Galina hadn't heard before-to her mother, men were rare and precious prey that had to be snared with cunning and artifice. Galina couldn't remember when last their conversation hadn't turned into a lesson in making herself attractive-how she should dress nicer, and mouth off less and smile more. Maybe this way she would hold someone's attention long enough to get knocked up. Neither mentioned the premise of these speeches-that Galina was unlovable without artifice and deception. She tried to avoid talking to her mother lately. But the voice in the hallway continued:  \nI just don't want her to turn into a bitter man-hater, her mother said. Last time when she came  \nhome from the hospital (she could never bring herself to say ‘mental institution') I had hope for a while. But now-I don't know if she should just go back or if there's nothing they can do to fix her.  \nGalina remembered that day, when she had returned home, still swollen from the sulfazineand-neuroleptics cocktails they had plied her with. The injection sites still hurt, and she resolved then to never do anything that would cause her to go back. She never told anyone about the things that flickered in the edges of her vision-strange creatures, awful sights. The mental ","cbCaioLanDS6eONH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioLanDS6eONH","pdf",1322393,205,"English","# Galina\n## Match and Blisters\n## Masha’s Pregnancy and Maternal Pressure\n## The Hallway Voices and Past Institutionalization\n## Fear, Isolation, and the Baby’s Scream","[{\"question\":\"Who is Galina and what is she dealing with at the start of the story?\",\"answer\":\"Galina has painful blisters on her fingers and she prepares lies to explain them to coworkers. She also tries to manage guilt and fear within a tense home environment.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Masha’s pregnancy affect Galina?\",\"answer\":\"Masha’s pregnancy intensifies Galina’s resentment because Galina feels the baby will steal what remains of her sister’s affection. 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