A few days ago, my aunt, an ophthalmologist, told me one story. Further from his words.

“It was in the mid-1990s. Patients from the North Caucasus were often brought to the clinic. One of them needed a corneal transplant. I started telling the accompanying about the operation, that there is a line, you need to wait for the donor material. At this point, I am interrupted by one of the accompanyers:

Do you need an eye? If it’s in 3-4 hours, okay?”