It is the story of a blue, orange and green parrot, born a few months before the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Conor is his name, is a long -tailed arlequin Ara, of beautiful size (about 50 centimeters), with a hooked and powerful beak. The intellect of these birds is estimated comparable to that of a child from 2 to 7 years old. The lesses are also beautiful speakers, and the Arlequins are supposed to be both players and sweet.
In 2021, Conor lived happy in Dnipro, a vast regional capital of the center-east of Ukraine, placed on the edge of the Dniepr, and then populated by 1 million inhabitants. He had been offered very young, at the age of 6 months, to a young woman of 25, Ania, Who has always dreamed of a parrot: a birthday gift from his boyfriend. Lovers fly shortly after spending the winter holidays in Thailand. The young woman entrusts Conor to her parents, Tatiana and Anton, « The time of the trip “.
On February 24, 2022, the war turned upside down the life of each person, of each family in the country. As of March 11, missiles fell on Dnipro, destroy the main airport track, then petroleum terminals, research centers, schools, residential buildings (46 dead in a single building after a strike, in January 2023), the large central market … The fights settled, night after night. No more question, for Ania, the mistress of Conor, to return to the country. « Waiting »as we say now in Ukraine, here it is permanently with his parents, Tatiana and Anton. They live in a three-room apartment in a small Brejnévien building, at the bottom of a street which bore the name of a local Russian poet before being renamed rue Neil-Armstrong, like the American astronaut.
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