THE LETTER

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Kurtz: Ah. Is that my tea?
Valentina: Yes, Uncle Lukas.
Kurtz: Aleksandra? Would you join me for a moment? There is a matter we should discuss.
Valentina: Of course. What is it?
Kurtz: I was hoping you could enlighten me to the meaning of this envelope I received today.
Kurtz: "Dear Miss Valentina. On behalf of the Committee on Admissions, your application to the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has been formally accepted."
Kurtz: We had an agreement. Anything you wanted in life, I would support you, except one thing.
Valentina: Uncle, please I can explain--
Kurtz: --You promised me you gave up this foolish pursuit! Do you know where this road leads? I have seen it. Lived it. Horrors you could not possibly imagine!
Valentina: But, but I am good at it. The world out there, the factory, I do not understand. But this, physics and microbiology--
Kurtz: I saw what it did to your father! It took years before I understood the pain we caused, the atrocities we committed. I will not allow you to follow in his path.
Valentina: You do not understand. I must! He told you I must complete his work. "Take her. Teach her. Be there, both of you, when Operation Baldr bears fruit."
Kurtz: What did you say?
Kurtz: How could you possibly know that?
Kurtz: This acceptance letter is going in the trash -- better yet, the fire.
Valentina: NO.
Kurtz: We shall not speak of this again.