All Things She Can Do by Victorya Tryzno

She knows a lot about gardening. Her roses are the most beautiful in the neighbourhood.
People ask her how does she manage to grow them so big and luxurious. She always answers that she knows how to treat them well. "I just know what they want" ­ she says with a smile. But what she doesn't know is what herhusband wants. He wants to wear beautiful lingerie and coctail dresses. He wants to
put red lipstic on his lips and curl his hair. He wants to wear jewlery and high heels. But she doesn't know all that. She is too busy in the garden. She also knows a lot about cooking. Her applepie is just incredible. When she has guests over, they shower her with compliments. She knows a special ingredient that makes it so wonderful. However, there's one thing that she doesn't know about her teenage daughter. She dates a man who is two times older than her, who also happens to be her teacher. Yet her mother was too busy cooking applepie to treat her guests. It seems that she knows everything that you need in life. Gardening, cooking, cleaning, sawing ­ she knows how to do all of those things. But she knows nothing about herself. She doesn't know that she wants to travel, learn how to ride a bike, have two dogs, get drunk in a bar, read a thousand books and draw a self-
portrait. And she also doesn't know that she wants to forget what she used to know.