Nadya, likened to a weeping willow, endures storms and stands strong, unlike the mightier oaks.

Sometimes even mighty oaks are uprooted by a storm, but the meek willow, which bends to the ground under gusts of wind, stands and holds on after bad weather. Nadya Klimova is one of those. While she was alive, my mother called Nadya "the weeping willow tree."