...And Olga Says:
Since my college years, I have been haunted by the final scene of Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" in which the oldest sister, Olga, reflects on the family and all they have endured. Hugging her two sisters she says, "The music is playing so cheerfully, it's so full of high spirits that one wants to stay alive. Oh God, Oh God! The time will come when we will be gone forever, we will be forgotten, our faces, our voices, and even how many of us there were. But our suffering
