Time for a little bit more backstory regarding Raisa. It's been established that she works as a nurse practitioner and part-time surrogate, but this is a reminder that she's not pregnant all the time. When she's between surrogacies she's quite fond of doing traveling and going to various skateparks. And in this image, another snow leopard can be seen. This grinding lad is her teenage son, Timur. He's a well-adjusted "skater boy", quite the fan of the culture and is eager to learn tricks just like his mother in the background, and she's quite proud of him. ^^

This kind of shows how far Raisa has come from her own not-so-pleasant teenage years. Never really established how they were, but the somewhat short version of it is that due to poor decisions, and having made poor friends, she got herself addicted to various strong substances which led to her spiraling out of control, causing her relationships with her parents and legitimate friends to become strained, if not broken. As time went on, she slowly got disillusioned with her lifestyle, but what caused her to go straight was discovering that she was pregnant at the age of 17, by an unknown (and still unknown), guy. And what also snapped her out of this cycle was discovering that her younger brother, Dmitriy, was going down the same route.

Raisa reconciled with her parents, and they agreed to help out as much as they could while Raisa worked hard to get her life back together, which she ended up doing so. When Raisa was 18, she gave birth to Timur on the 23rd
of February, 2008. Unfortunately the same couldn't be said for her brother Dmitriy. She tried very hard to get him back, but he was in too deep with what he was doing, and ultimately disappeared without a trace around 2013, and was never found. To this day she considers the loss of her brother her greatest failure.

In the end, Raisa definitely came very far from her teenage years, and has plenty of advice and stories to share to people whom also are astray in life. Her son Timur is growing into a really good, and slightly-snarky, adult, and she couldn't be more proud of him. He's the main reason why she's on a better path these days.


So that's some more info regarding Raisa's background, if it all makes sense, heh. once again did stellar work with this image. ^^ You'll definitely see Timur again in the future, as well as Raisa between surrogacies. >w>

Raisa and Timur Yahontov belong to me. Luca is the artist and her post is here!