The climax of the celebration for the birthday girl is her first dance. A symbolic enactment of her departure from childhood takes place: […] Afterward, the birthday girl dances with all of the young chamberlanes, marking her entry into womanhood.

In 2004 Patriarch Filaret endowed the church with the special status of Stavropihiia (subordination to no other authority than the Patriarch) within the Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate.

Goddammit! I give you peckers an inch and you automatically take a mile […]

You must wonder why I'm relentless and all strung out/I'm consumed by the chill of solitary