So, this is just me trying to clean up the already translated text, rather than attempt to translate it myself since I don't know Russian--any thoughts? This is from the introduction:
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That's me: the main character of this story! Eighteen years old... and a member of a lost generation. I recently graduated from high-school and still believe that my future is determined by fate.
Right now, I'm waiting to hear back from a local university I applied to. My dad left our family when I was a small brat, but growing up like that isn't as hard as it may seem. He might have left during a bad time, but we're not poor or anything. I live with my mother and older sister in a small and cozy house just outside the city; I love my mom, but my bitch of a sister has hassled me all my life. It's terrible.
Even though I'm grown now, and don't hold what's she put me through against her, she still occasionally goes out of her way to remind me of the "fun," childhood we had. And now, she's even mocking me because of what happened at prom...
Maybe someday, I'll get even. (Seriously, sometimes it feels like I'm going to lose my mind because of her.)
It's best not to dwell on it, though; now that Summer is here, I have a lot of free time and need to spend it wisely.
Or so I've always been told.