Kauno mergaites is buitininku mokyklos

Previously

…But as Elena lay in the darkness, listening to the breathing of the other girls, she wondered if that was true. The school was a machine designed to shape her into something specific—a homemaker, a wife, a mother. Every lesson, every exercise, every word from Signora Petrova was a step toward that future. And yet, somewhere deep inside her, a small voice whispered a different possibility. A voice that spoke of books and journeys and the wide, waiting world beyond the gates of the Kaunas School for Future Homemakers. She closed her eyes and let the voice grow louder, just for a moment, before the morning came and the lessons began again.