Алиса Пермякова

It was the classic couple out of films about the 1930s... And about the 1960s... And about the 1970s, and the 2000s for good measure. I'm sure even you know a couple like the heroes of my story, or have at least heard of them. Frankly, I would not have risked officially matching a couple with characters like that through our agency. But as a rule they manage perfectly well without us.

What are the natural rights of the personality? They are the rights that would seem to go without saying, simply because we are born and we grow. They were derived by Alexander Lowen, and Sergey Shishkov and his team developed them further.

Nobody pulled Masha's pigtails much when she was a child. And not only because she rarely wore them — more because everybody knew what it would lead to. Masha could hit back. She was often hurt, of course, wondering why the boys chased all the other girls and pulled their pigtails and left her alone, but she soon explained to herself that idiots whose only trick is pulling a pigtail were the last thing she needed. And from then on the "idiots" gave her a wide berth.

Marianna was the first and the last member I dragged into the club by the scruff of the neck. I actually have few "frustration" friends, and those I do have are usually seeing somebody successfully. So when I had finished Sasha's profiling, I first had a brief bout of despair — where on earth was I going to conjure up a suitable woman for him? — and then a moment of illumination: I knew the suitable woman personally. The only trouble was that the suitable woman considered herself too good for dating clubs of that sort.