Never too old: This ice skating grandma never feels lonely

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Lybov was raised on lake Baikal, a secluded fishing village in Russia which if you wish to leave, you must ice skate for many miles. When the fish disappeared, so did the villagers... except for Lybov.

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00:00My back hurts, I can't walk for a long time, but on skates I can straighten my legs and my back doesn't hurt.

00:24My name is Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, I live on the shore of Baikal.

00:30Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

00:36Because the school is 4 km away, in winter you still need to ride your skates.

00:41So he cut out of the saw, cut out such plates and inserted them into the wooden ones.

00:50He attached these ropes to the wooden ones, and with these ropes we still tied skates to the skates.

01:00Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

01:04He himself did not know how to skate, and he took me by the hand.

01:08I was small, but I immediately understood what to do, and then he let me go, and that's it, I quickly learned to skate.

01:17Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

01:23In spring and autumn we walked on foot, we crossed three rivers.

01:29These are slippery stones, who will fall, will crash in this water, in the ice.

01:35No one was sick, I don't know, I've never been sick.

01:39Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

01:42And the little one drowned, and the adult drowned, and the cutout, all the same, the cutout.

01:47Wet, yes, everything.

01:49Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

01:50There was a big village, first of all, there was a fishing reception point.

01:53Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

01:54And people left, because there was nothing to do.

01:58Once Baikal was closed, there was no fish.

02:00Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

02:01I left Irkutsk and worked at a factory.

02:03When he got sick, I immediately quit all my work in 2010.

02:08Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

02:09And I came and began to take care of him until he died in 2011.

02:15Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

02:16And that's it, and that's all I have left, with the farm, with everything.

02:20But many thought that I would leave it all.

02:22Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

02:23It's hard to be alone, only after the children have become adults.

02:26This is the eighth year, and it was very hard.

02:30Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

02:31Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

02:32Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

02:34I learned poems, poems, sang,

02:39I walked around and talked to cows and dogs.

02:44In general, I did not lose my gift of speech.

02:47I go, chase, sing to the cows.

02:50When I sing, they also go well, wag their tails.

02:55As soon as I start to swear, they look at me and say,

03:01I feel delight, joy.

03:04I do not feel loneliness.

03:06This person feels loneliness when he is alone, when no one goes to him.

03:14I am not alone, I have children, I have grandchildren, I have cows, I have dogs.

03:19What kind of loneliness is this? Is this loneliness?

03:26I don't think it's loneliness.

03:30Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

03:32Lyubov Nikolaevna Marikhodova, skater

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