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	by Sara Margaryan


	It is appalling news!
	you will say
	and make a phone-call
	to your close friend
	to spread the rumor

	she will in her turn
	call her close friend
	and they will all
	in their turn
	call their closest friends
	until one day
	you will receive a phone-call
	from one of your close friends
	with that appalling news
	which by that time
	you will have forgotten about
	and then you will take the phone-receiver.


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Sara Margaryan was born in Yerevan, Armenia. She has graduated from
Yerevan State Linguistic University and the European Peace University,
Stadtschlaining, Austria. At present she studies for a Master program
of Asian Studies, Lund, Sweden, specializing in modern Japan. Sara has
been writing poetry since childhood and published a book in 1999.
She writes mainly in Russian, but also in Armenian and English.