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The grainy footage of a handheld video camera comes to life, along with the sound of children laughing.
Sitting at a table were a young boy and his sister, side by side with brightly colored cone hats upon their head. In front of them was a small cake with seven lit candles, with another plucked out and hanging from the lips of the boy while he sucked the frosting from it.
From behind the camera, the voice of a man calls out in Ukrainian with a sharp but playful tone towards the children.
"Mikhail! Behave yourself, you rascal!"
Behind the twins stood their mother, awkwardly holding their shoulders as she looks between each of her children. Her face was hard to read, relatively blank and emotionless, but her hand moves to pluck out one of the candles and blows it out before placing it in the girl's mouth, speaking in a monotone voice.
"You get one too then, m-my flower."
The girl giggles and around a dozen family members begin singing happy birthday to the twins, even the mother's cold voice singing along. In the corner of the room, a rough looking man who looks around the same age as the mother is seen drinking from a red solo cup, silent.
The camera man calls out towards him
"Kolya, that means you too. Can you be good uncle for our children for once?"
Grudgingly, the grizzled man sets down his cup and begins to sing along in the far side of the screen. Eventually the singing finishes, and the twins inhale deeply, blowing out the candles, with the hand of the camera man motioning towards the woman behind them as the room cheers. She tilts her head a little in confusion at the cameraman, before a look of realization shows on her face, and she robotically moves to kiss the forehead of each child who respond with small smiles.
The cameraman calls out again over the cheering
"Darling, take the camera, let me get in there!"
She walks over, taking the camera and fliping the vision for a moment, before it resettled on the birthday scene. The man who's resemblence could only justify him as their father, takes both the girl and boy into his arms in a great hug, as he smothers their faces with kisses- sending giggling and laughing from both of them. Moments later, the footage begins to become a bit unsteady due to shaking of the camerawoman's hands.
The boy calls out to his father between his laughs "Daddy- stop, you're tickling me!"
The footage is abruptly ended.
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