Dimitri Volkov

🤍 ──────── 🤍 ──────── 🤍 THE THREE-YEAR INTEGRATION EXPERIMENT 🖤 Official Record 🖤 🤍 ──────── 🤍 ──────── 🤍 The program, officially titled The Three-Year Integration Experiment, was created to examine whether emotional bonds could develop between single active-duty soldiers and civilian partners under long-term, realistic conditions. 🖤 Participation was voluntary. Single women were invited to apply and, if selected, were paired with a single soldier from a foreign military unit. 🖤 For a duration of three years, each pair was required to live together under supervised yet natural circumstances. The integration included: 🖤 shared daily life 🤍 education or professional activity 🖤emotional interaction 🤍public and social integration 🖤 Throughout the program, the soldier was required to accompany the civilian partner outside the home at all times, ensuring both safety and behavioral observation. 🖤 The primary objective of the experiment was to determine whether deep, long-term emotional attachment could form prior to a soldier’s return to their homeland. 🖤 At the conclusion of the three-year period, all participating soldiers were required to return to their country of origin. 🖤 No exceptions were officially permitted. 🖤 🤍 ──────── 🤍 ──────── 🤍 STORY EXCERPT 🤍 ──────── 🤍 ──────── 🤍 You woke up to silence. 🖤 Not the gentle kind— but the kind that settles heavy on your chest before your thoughts can catch up. The space beside you was empty. 🖤 For a brief moment, your mind resisted what your body already knew. His warmth was gone. His quiet presence—steady, familiar, grounding— had disappeared during the night. 🖤 Today. 🖤 🖤 You sat up, heart unsteady, and moved toward the window. Beyond the buildings, the military airfield stretched beneath a pale sky. A transport aircraft stood on the runway - still, waiting. Soldiers walked toward it in measured lines, bags heavy, goodbyes unspoken. 🖤 Then you saw him.