After cleaning a stranger’s abandoned grave at the cemetery, the next morning I FROZE from what I saw…
“I mean, are you cleaning this grave because it’s a relative or someone you know?” The man replied that it wasn’t his relative’s grave. “The director asked me to take care of it,” he explained, continuing his work. He said a relative had called and asked to clean the grave.
They couldn’t come themselves, as they live far away in another city. The woman nodded, showing she understood. After wiping the blood and dirt from her knees, Karina took a photo of the unfamiliar gravestone on her phone.
Then she stood up and, carefully watching her step, headed along the path to the gate. And so, she missed the noon train and had to wait for the next one. At a small kiosk at the station, she bought a bottle of water and found a shady spot to rest.
When the woman finally returned home, the clock showed 7 p.m. She was glad she didn’t have to go to work the next day and could sleep in. Before starting dinner, Karina first tended to her scraped knees.
She carefully treated the cuts with antiseptic to avoid infection. Then she cooked pasta and reheated cutlets left from the previous day. After finishing dinner, Karina decided to search for information about the woman whose grave was so neglected.
The gravestone bore the name Anna Petrovna Isaeva Tolmacheva, but there were no birth or death dates, which made the search much harder. She decided to use the internet to find information about Anna Petrovna. Opening her laptop, she entered the last name, first name, and patronymic, hoping to find any details about the person whose gravestone she saw at the cemetery.
She had no specific goals; she was just curious. Among the search results, Karina found only two people with those names. The first was too young, only 20, and didn’t have the last name Tolmacheva.
The second woman had died 25 years ago. Thus, it could be assumed the abandoned grave belonged to her. According to the information, Anna Petrovna was born on March 1, 1906, and passed away at 83…