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This story is like an explanation to Ivan Franko's letter to Agathangel Krymsky, who asked where the collection «The Thorns ’withered leaves» came from;which caused so many misunderstandings among readers who were used to seeing its author as a mason and an eternal revolutionary rebel devoid of ordinary human weaknesses, the poem "Love appeared to me three times" appeared. Is it a literary fiction, as Franko himself assured in the preface to this collection, or is it a work that is still autobiographical in nature, and if so, who are the three loves that appeared to the author? The poet dared to name only two of them. He kept silent about the name of the third, saying only that it was a Polish woman....