Bulgaria - Bread Over the Fence
A loaf of bread.
- Here you are.
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And for you little girl?
Three? O. K.,
you've got them. How much
is here?
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You need two, don't you?
And now, for you.
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Two.
- Two only?
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You get up, get dressed
and take care of the bread.
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Everything else comes after
that.
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How many loaves? Two?
Three?
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That's it.
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Listen! My greatest
treasure is that
I meet 300 people every
morning.
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And everyone says:
"Morning! Hi!
How are you! What's
up?"
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The news spreads here -
who died, what happened.
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This gives you a sense of
belonging.
For me that's it.
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My first job in the morning
is to go and buy bread.
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Everyone else in the
village does
the same and then we start
our chores.
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I go to work on my farm.
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We don't mind working.
We probably have it in our
genes.
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I am fond of doing my job.
This gives me health, too.
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As old people round here
say,
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I don't have time to get ill, I have
work to do. And that's the
truth.
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We start a little before 7
a.m.
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It's two more loaves of bread,
isn't it?
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In summer, however,
we start earlier - about 6
a.m.
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That's because people have
to go
to work. It's an agricultural region.
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Our village is in northwest
Bulgaria.
99.9% of the population is
Catholic.
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Only people who came
from other places are not
Catholic.
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Some bought houses here.
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There are mixed marriages,
too,
with East Orthodox.
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But, compared to the whole
population
in Bulgaria or even the
region,
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we, Catholics, are a
minority.
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Do you want 3 loaves of bread,
girl?
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Before our ancestors moved
here,
they suffered a lot of
floods.
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There was a river nearby.
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So, they came to settle
in this flat region.
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Whether you look left or
right,
to the north, or to the
south,
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all you can see is flat
land.
No woods, no hills or
valleys.
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When I come here in the
morning
I check everything,
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I feed the animals, give
them water,
then the sheep are let free
to graze.
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My wife cleans the pen
thoroughly.
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We collect the eggs
and let the birds out.
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In the evening water and
food
are provided again
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and we count the birds,
because there are foxes.
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We close and lock
everywhere
for the night and leave.
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It feels good
because we are our own bosses.
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I was born here. My Dad was
born here.
My Grandpa came when he was
7.
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I've been a Catholic for a
long time.
As a schoolboy I had to go
to church.
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In church it is
40 minutes of absolute
silence.
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We got used to
some sort of calmness and
serenity.
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That's what impressed me.
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I've always worked in the
village.
After the army service I
married here.
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We raised our children and
grandchildren,
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we hope to see their kids
and then - whatever comes.
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There is a kind of joy
at this age too.
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My wife and I live to help
our daughters and
grandchildren.
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We are satisfied.
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We've got clothes
for two more lifetimes.
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We've got a house,
we don't need a second one.
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It feels good to be able to
help.
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My greatest anguish is
that our children leave the
country.
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My younger daughter is in
Italy,
my son-in-law is in Greece.
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They left their kids
behind.
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But children need their Mum
and Dad.
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My wife and me feel that
we start to lose control
over kids.
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My daughter, as the
Headmaster
of the school, can manage them
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but they don't listen to
us.
So, that's my pain.
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I don't see any
perspectives
for my daughter and her
husband here
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and we want our children
and grandchildren to live
here.
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We live here.
The children used to help.
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However, the children went
away.
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The village is
lifeless and forlorn now.
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Just old people are left,
all of them retired.
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Money is not enough by far.
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So, we are barely managing.
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This is a mountainous
country.
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It's not like the field,
it's steep.
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It is not suitable for
every crop
and work on the land is
hard.
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Almost all the land
in the steep areas is
barren now.
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When I get up at 6, my
first job is
to manage the animals,
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to send the goats out - I have 4
of them - to the woods to
graze.
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Then I start working.
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So every day of mine passes -
in work. I like it.
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I never need a clock
to wake up at 5.30 every
morning.
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And I jump to my feet straight away.
First I say my prayer:
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"God, let the day be
like yesterday -
happy, joyous
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with no tears but laughter only.
Let there be no
quarrels."
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I wash up and go to tend
the animals.
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The animal can't speak for
itself
and you have to think of it
first.
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Then we send them to the
square
and they go to graze.
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We keep them in turns.
Today it's
me, tomorrow - someone
else.
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Almost everyone in the
village
is Catholic.
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There are a few younger
families,
who are East Orthodox
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and also several Muslim
families.
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And we all get along well.
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There are no sharp
conflicts.
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Of course, there are some
disputes,
it is inevitable among
neighbours,
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but they are usually
quickly solved.
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I came to the village of
Pokrovan
in 1987 to work as a cattle
breeder.
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They are mostly Catholics
and I am a Muslim.
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I come from the Smolyan
region.
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We came here, the children
grew up
and married and it is late
to go back.
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I lost my job in 1992, when funds
for cattle breeding were
cut.
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There are no job
opportunities
in the village.
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I moved to the neighbouring hood.
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But it is hard to live on a
monthly
pension of 42 leva (20
Euro).
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One day I decided
to make this forge here.
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I had no money but I
finished it
with my own labour and
tools.
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Since I had no compressor,
@SHOW 00:15:46:09
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I adapted
an old German vacuum
cleaner.
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I reversed the movement of
air
inwards to create vacuum.
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Thus, I started little by
little,
repairing instruments and
tools.
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At first I mended
my own pickaxes and hoes,
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then people brought their
ploughs.
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Gradually companies learned
about my workshop
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and started
bringing their instruments.
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That helps us make it
through.
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Nacho and Yanka are
wonderful people.
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We've known them from the
very first
day of our arrival - 4th
May 1987.
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I led the flock past their
house.
We didn't know each other.
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She noticed that my wife and kids
walked along with me.
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And the flock was of 270
sheep.
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In the late afternoon,
on our return,
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Yanka came out with fresh
homemade
bread and gave it to my
wife.
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When I brought the sheep
back
we milked them.
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Then my wife said:
"A lady brought this
bread."
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And it was really
delicious.
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On the next evening we went
to meet those people.
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We saw that they were
elderly and
without children,
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so we started helping each
other.
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To have no children is a
tragedy
of its own kind. It's not
easy.
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I couldn't keep my babies
till birth,
I had miscarriages.
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The doctor gave me
injections
to help me carry them
through.
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But I always lost them in
2-3 months.
The doctor himself cried.
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He said: "I can't do
more than that,
you have to lie in
bed."
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But how could I lie in bed?
Who was going to work on the land?
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It was a very hard time for
us.
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I did a lot of jobs on
their house:
replacing the electric installation,
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fixing plaster here and
there,
putting doors.
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I helped them in any way I
could.
And Nacho stood for me many
times.
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There were cases I had to
go
to a funeral to my native
village.
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One has to be there for
relations -
my grandfather, my uncle...
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And you can't find
a free sheep-keeper.
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But Nacho was always there
for me,
and I was there for him.
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Boiko is a Muslim
and we are Catholics.
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But it does not
stop us helping each other.
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Faith is not an obstacle.
It all comes from the
heart.
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An evil person can harm
you,
even though he is Catholic.
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And if one is good, it
doesn't matter
whether he is a Muslim.
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Even if they are not home,
I know where they keep the
key.
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We trust each other
completely.
I go in, leave what I have
brought.
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I can just write a note
I've been there and that's
it.
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I feel him as my son and
his wife -
my daughter-in-law.
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When she comes home, she
would
do the cooking and wash the
dishes.
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She would not let us work,
as if she was one of our
family.
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And we feel them close.
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We regard them as our
parents
and they accept me as their
son.
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I've never had to ask them,
but I know
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they would give me their last
money
to help me in case of need.
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I am sister Margareta
Babich.
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I come from Croatia and
I've got
only two names,
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not three like Bulgarians
do.
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I've been in Bulgaria
since October 1999.
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I guess the hardest thing
for me
was the language.
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If you have to communicate
with people, with kids,
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especially for Theology
lessons,
you need the language.
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Cleaning is not a problem.
I am a genius with garbage
and dirt.
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It was hard to learn the
language.
But it's wonderful to work
with kids.
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Kids always help me. They
correct
my use of words and
mispronunciation.
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They say: "Sister, that's
wrong!"
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And it has been much more
efficient
than studies with a
textbook.
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On my first Easter here we
tried
to help the kids in the
orphanage.
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I've been alone here for 2
years but
then there was another
sister with me.
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She suggested taking
painted eggs
to the orphanage.
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THE ORPHANAGE
IN BARDARSKI GERAN
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We also collected some
money.
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Not everyone had money to
give,
some gave less, some -
more.
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And at my afternoon meeting
with the adults I asked
people
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what to do with that money.
They suggested buying milk.
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The director of the
orphanage said
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the kids had not seen milk
for a long time.
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So I decided to do that in
our house
and during the break
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to give each child a glass
of milk
and something to go with
it.
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Stick to our arrangement -
stand in a nice queue.
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God bless you.
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Here you are, God bless
you.
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Katherina comes.
She is usually the first to
arrive.
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So, this week our job is
to listen to the voice of
God.
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In order to hear God's
voice,
we have to keep silence.
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Remember, the first Book of
the Bible
is related to this -
listen!
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Abraham does not know where
he must go, but he listens.
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And it is said - he set off.
It might safely be said -
in darkness.
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He does not know where this
land is
and how he is going to
reach it,
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but he hears God's voice:
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"Abraham, you are to
go to the land,
where I am sending
you."
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And who has the strength to
leave
his home, parents, his land
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and to go where God sends
him?
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Not that I mean "I am
Abraham".
I'm not. I am something
small.
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But it was the same with me
when I had to leave to
Bulgaria.
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I did not know about
Bardarski Geran,
about Katherina, or
Marishka,
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or Anka, Liutska,
Tereska, Drazhka or...
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We can name them all.
We are all brothers and sisters.
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Katherina, for instance,
was born
in the same year as my
mother.
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And don't be jealous but we
have
an agreement with her
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to come every morning and
pray
to the Virgin Mary for me,
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standing for my mother.
That was arranged from the
beginning.
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Everyone was equally
unfamiliar to me
but she said she was of the
same age.
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So, when you go where God
sends you,
you are at the right place.
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Good morning.
- Good morning.
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I was born in Pokrovan and
I've spent
all my life in the kitchen.
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I have two children. My
daughter
is married in the city of
Haskovo.
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I have a son, too.
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00:30:23:02 00:30:25:13
When I was newly married,
we were forbidden to go to
church.
@SHOW
00:30:25:18 00:30:34:04
My husband and I went
secretly
at night to be married
before God.
@SHOW
00:30:37:03 00:30:47:11
We also
christened our children
secretly.
@SHOW
00:30:51:03 00:30:54:22
Faith never dies.
We are both Catholic.
@SHOW
00:30:57:02 00:31:00:14
We believe in God.
@SHOW
00:31:00:20 00:31:04:08
My life turned out to be
very sad.
@SHOW
00:31:09:08 00:31:16:02
I was widowed when I was
32.
@SHOW
00:31:18:16 00:31:22:16
I feel sorrow when I see my
friends:
@SHOW
00:31:23:01 00:31:26:22
they have husbands
and help each other.
@SHOW
00:31:27:16 00:31:32:12
There are man's jobs
and I have no one to help
me.
@SHOW 00:31:32:23
00:31:39:03
Moreover you have no one to
talk to
when you come back home at
night.
@SHOW
00:31:40:09 00:31:48:04
Yet, it is as it is.
@SHOW
00:31:53:13 00:31:56:08
I carried on for the sake
of my children. In
loneliness.
@SHOW
00:31:56:11 00:32:04:00
What can you do? It's fate.
@SHOW
00:32:04:22 00:32:09:03
In the past there were many
young people in the village
@SHOW
00:32:10:02 00:32:16:08
and lots of marriages.
I cooked for all of them.
@SHOW
00:32:16:11 00:32:24:11
I enjoyed it, but in the
end,
after I served my meals
@SHOW
00:32:27:05 00:32:32:01
and saw people celebrate
and being so merry,
@SHOW
00:32:32:04 00:32:37:01
I used to grow sad.
@SHOW
00:32:37:03 00:32:39:13
It was very hard for me
because I was still young.
@SHOW
00:32:39:15 00:32:46:00
This is heavier but more
reliable.
There is no motor to burn
up.
@SHOW
00:33:05:07 00:33:10:13
We are a great team with my
wife.
I can only work with her
properly.
@SHOW
00:33:15:16 00:33:20:00
Maybe the fault is with me.
@SHOW
00:33:20:02 00:33:22:04
However, I can't work
with my daughters and
sons-in-law.
@SHOW
00:33:22:06 00:33:25:24
My granddaughter
is a great assistant.
@SHOW
00:33:26:01 00:33:28:14
My grandson is a bit of a
dodger.
@SHOW
00:33:28:16 00:33:30:24
Granddaughter,
go and collect the eggs.
@SHOW
00:33:31:02 00:33:33:22
She enjoys collecting the
eggs
and feeding the animals.
@SHOW
00:33:34:00 00:33:38:01
I'm very pleased with her.
@SHOW
00:33:38:03 00:33:40:08
I'm pleased with him too,
but he tries to get too
clever.
@SHOW
00:33:40:10 00:33:44:02
This younger one
takes after his Grandma.
@SHOW
00:33:44:05 00:33:46:22
Well, it was a long time
ago.
How many years back?
@SHOW
00:33:47:01 00:33:51:18
When I finished my army
service
I had to get married.
@SHOW 00:33:52:01
00:33:56:13
I met her once at the
dentist.
@SHOW
00:33:57:04 00:33:59:13
I liked her
and started dancing with
her only.
@SHOW
00:33:59:17 00:34:04:16
And these things
can't be kept secret.
@SHOW
00:34:05:03 00:34:10:18
If I was single now,
I'd take her again.
@SHOW
00:34:13:00 00:34:15:24
I don't know about her.
She says - no.
@SHOW
00:34:16:03 00:34:19:17
We've been together
for many years...
@SHOW
00:34:21:01 00:34:23:19
How many?
- Almost 50.
@SHOW
00:34:23:20 00:34:26:03
It means we are both very
good.
@SHOW
00:34:26:04 00:34:28:23
You know why? Because
we got patience with each
other.
@SHOW
00:34:28:24 00:34:32:12
So on the 20th...
- November.
@SHOW
00:34:32:13 00:34:34:16
On the 20th November
we made the wedding.
@SHOW
00:34:34:18 00:34:37:09
1955. I left the army in
1954.
That's how it was then.
@SHOW
00:34:37:12 00:34:41:21
One year and a man
should start a family.
@SHOW
00:34:41:23 00:34:44:24
So, we went to the
Municipal Office
with pictures and
everything.
@SHOW
00:34:45:02 00:34:49:20
We took a note
and signed in the register.
@SHOW
00:34:49:21 00:34:53:16
Then we went to the priest
with
the note and were married
in church.
@SHOW
00:34:53:18 00:34:58:06
That was the accepted order
and I approve of it.
@SHOW
00:34:58:07 00:35:01:12
Then comes the wedding.
@SHOW
00:35:01:13 00:35:03:17
Tradition here is to help
the young
couple morally and financially.
@SHOW
00:35:03:20 00:35:09:15
Parents cover the expenses
and the profit goes to the
newlyweds.
@SHOW
00:35:09:18 00:35:14:06
That's how it was in the past.
@SHOW
00:35:14:07 00:35:16:23
That's how it was.
Now they do it in
restaurants.
@SHOW
00:35:17:04 00:35:20:21
But back then the big
wedding
was obligatory.
@SHOW
00:35:21:00 00:35:24:13
Till I was married I was
not aware
that Catholics existed
@SHOW
00:35:38:18 00:35:43:00
and did not know the
difference
in religion.
@SHOW
00:35:43:04 00:35:47:09
Only when I got married I
learned
that my wife was Catholic.
@SHOW
00:35:47:13 00:35:53:15
I did not know that when I
met her.
@SHOW
00:35:53:19 00:35:57:14
I realized
this was a Catholic village.
@SHOW
00:35:57:20 00:36:01:02
It is the only one in the
region.
@SHOW
00:36:01:05 00:36:06:12
In all the rest
East Orthodox and Muslims
live.
@SHOW 00:36:07:14
00:36:12:11
We got married on 27th
February,
42 years ago.
@SHOW
00:36:13:04 00:36:19:18
Then I called my parents
that I got married.
@SHOW
00:36:19:24 00:36:28:03
I told them he was East Orthodox.
@SHOW
00:36:28:12 00:36:33:00
My father wrote to me:
"Couldn't you
choose a Catholic. Why an
Orthodox?"
@SHOW
00:36:33:03 00:36:39:21
I didn't reply anything
but I thought:
@SHOW
00:36:39:24 00:36:42:22
where should I've looked
for
a Catholic?
@SHOW
00:36:43:00 00:36:46:08
Should I've written it on a
board?
@SHOW
00:36:46:13 00:36:49:14
So, we found one another
and got married.
@SHOW
00:36:49:17 00:36:53:22
We sent telegrams,
asking them to come.
@SHOW
00:36:54:01 00:36:58:02
We invited them to the wedding
but they wouldn't arrive,
@SHOW
00:36:58:05 00:37:01:19
since I was of the East
Orthodox.
So, they promptly refused.
@SHOW
00:37:01:22 00:37:06:01
Only my wife's sister
was present on her side,
@SHOW
00:37:06:04 00:37:11:03
since they both worked
here.
I felt bad for her, but...
@SHOW
00:37:11:10 00:37:17:18
Mum cried a lot that Father
did not
let anybody come to my
wedding.
@SHOW
00:37:18:10 00:37:25:11
Anyway, it was done and
over.
@SHOW
00:37:25:13 00:37:27:23
On the National Day we
decided
to visit my parents.
@SHOW
00:37:28:01 00:37:35:07
We were a little reserved
about it,
thinking they wouldn't want
us.
@SHOW
00:37:36:09 00:37:41:20
But they welcomed us.
@SHOW
00:37:41:22 00:37:44:09
We started visiting them
but I always felt somehow
neglected.
@SHOW
00:37:44:11 00:37:52:05
Very much neglected.
@SHOW
00:37:52:14 00:37:55:01
I always stood aside,
@SHOW
00:37:55:05 00:37:58:13
because my father-in-law
didn't like talking to me.
@SHOW
00:37:58:22 00:38:05:00
Then my sister-in-law got
married.
My father-in-law was very
pleased,
@SHOW
00:38:24:04 00:38:28:18
because she married a
Catholic.
@SHOW
00:38:28:19 00:38:31:06
He was absolutely delighted
with his new son-in-law.
@SHOW
00:38:31:09 00:38:38:00
A year passed.
We went again to visit
them.
@SHOW
00:38:38:14 00:38:43:06
My father-in-law said:
"Let's pray to God and
eat."
@SHOW
00:38:43:08 00:38:48:21
I had never argued with
him about his beliefs.
@SHOW
00:38:48:23 00:38:54:07
Here my brother-in-law, the
Catholic,
stood out.
@SHOW
00:38:55:03 00:38:59:12
"That's enough,
Dad", he said.
"People went to the open
space
@SHOW
00:38:59:15 00:39:04:11
and did not find him
and you are only looking
for God."
@SHOW
00:39:04:13 00:39:08:12
So, they both quarreled
rather seriously.
@SHOW
00:39:08:15 00:39:12:01
I decided to interfere
and said to the younger
man:
@SHOW
00:39:12:04 00:39:18:13
"Why do you argue now?
Everyone believes in
something."
@SHOW
00:39:18:18 00:39:25:17
"Why do you care
if he believes in
God?"
@SHOW
00:39:25:18 00:39:31:06
My father changed his
attitude,
seeing my husband was not a
bad man.
@SHOW
00:39:31:19 00:39:41:19
I never regarded him
as an evil person.
@SHOW
00:39:42:22 00:39:47:22
It was a bit hard till I
convinced
him that I was not bad
either.
@SHOW
00:39:47:24 00:39:53:20
My wife is East Orthodox.
She does not come from that
village.
@SHOW
00:39:55:18 00:40:01:11
My daughter's husband is
also
East Orthodox. They do not
live here.
@SHOW
00:40:02:05 00:40:07:08
My son is Catholic and his
wife
is East Orthodox too.
@SHOW
00:40:07:11 00:40:12:01
They, too, live in another
city.
@SHOW
00:40:12:05 00:40:15:00
But there are no problems,
due to their different
religion.
@SHOW
00:40:15:03 00:40:21:23
Bread does not divide
people
into Catholics and East
Orthodox.
@SHOW
00:40:22:24 00:40:27:05
We cannot deny bread
to anybody, who comes to
the village.
@SHOW
00:40:27:08 00:40:31:22
Bread is sacred. Even the
traveler
should get it, anybody at
all.
@SHOW
00:40:31:24 00:40:37:09
This year both Easters are
one month away.
@SHOW
00:40:38:03 00:40:42:13
We will celebrate both -
the Catholic and the East
Orthodox.
@SHOW
00:40:42:18 00:40:47:20
Two celebrations. It is
best
when they happen on the
same date.
@SHOW
00:40:48:00 00:40:54:07
My wife never said we had
our Easter,
why should we celebrate
yours?
@SHOW 00:40:56:08
00:41:01:19
She always prepared
both celebrations.
@SHOW
00:41:01:24 00:41:06:10
The biggest pain is the
lack of jobs.
@SHOW
00:41:31:02 00:41:34:04
If these days something
happens
@SHOW
00:41:34:06 00:41:36:24
and I am not on this job,
I'll have to stay at home.
@SHOW
00:41:37:01 00:41:41:17
And it will be hard,
because
I'm used to being with
people.
@SHOW
00:41:41:21 00:41:46:14
I'll be 60 this year.
And I'll miss being among
people.
@SHOW
00:41:46:17 00:41:53:01
Three breads?
Choose crisper if you like.
@SHOW 00:41:54:16
00:41:58:15
It is an old tradition in
this region
@SHOW
00:42:04:05 00:42:08:04
that every village should
have
its own brass band.
@SHOW
00:42:08:06 00:42:12:23
This tradition was
strongest
in the 60-ies and 70-ies.
@SHOW
00:42:13:04 00:42:18:23
Then it gradually faded
away.
@SHOW
00:42:19:01 00:42:22:15
When I came here I met
some younger guys who love
music.
@SHOW
00:42:22:20 00:42:28:06
I love music too.
@SHOW
00:42:28:13 00:42:30:13
And we decided to form a
band.
Not so big as they used to
be.
@SHOW
00:42:30:17 00:42:37:11
We are only 6 or 7 people.
But I very much enjoy it.
@SHOW
00:42:37:16 00:42:46:14
When someone is feeling low
and sad,
@SHOW
00:42:49:07 00:42:54:09
it helps a lot to play and
sing,
to gather with mates. One
forgets.
@SHOW
00:42:56:09 00:43:04:14
You can't play and sing
and be unhappy at the same
time.
@SHOW
00:43:04:17 00:43:09:14
So, that's my consolation.
@SHOW
00:43:09:19 00:43:13:22
We have a lot of solitary
old people,
disabled persons.
@SHOW
00:44:56:23 00:45:05:02
We take food to their
homes.
@SHOW
00:45:05:18 00:45:10:00
Those who can walk,
come here to the canteen.
@SHOW
00:45:10:07 00:45:17:19
It was created by
"Caritas" -
a beneficiary Catholic
organization,
@SHOW
00:45:19:03 00:45:23:23
whose aim is to help
old and sick people in the
village.
@SHOW
00:45:23:24 00:45:30:12
Our canteen
is an act of charity and
mercy.
@SHOW
00:45:31:08 00:45:38:06
It doesn't divide people
according to their faith.
@SHOW
00:45:39:18 00:45:44:17
Everybody who is poor and
lonely
has the right to eat here.
@SHOW
00:45:44:21 00:45:52:10
Loneliness is the worst
thing.
I feel for lonely people,
@SHOW
00:46:09:05 00:46:14:12
because I know what it is
like.
@SHOW
00:46:14:15 00:46:17:14
I was left a widow
when I was too young.
@SHOW 00:46:17:17
00:46:23:21
And I was the only widow
in the village.
@SHOW
00:46:23:23 00:46:29:16
If only there was another
woman
in my position,
@SHOW
00:46:29:20 00:46:33:08
so we could comfort each
other.
But no, I was the only one
here.
@SHOW
00:46:33:11 00:46:37:23
I understand
it is hard for lonely
people.
@SHOW
00:46:38:01 00:46:40:24
But they are grateful
that their food is provided
@SHOW
00:46:41:02 00:46:46:15
and they have someone
to exchange a few words
with.
@SHOW
00:46:46:18 00:46:51:10
When they come to the
canteen,
they smile.
@SHOW
00:46:51:14 00:46:54:17
If we tell a joke,
they laugh with us.
@SHOW
00:46:54:20 00:46:58:15
I guess they are glad to
have us.
@SHOW
00:46:58:24 00:47:01:07
I am glad too,
because I want to help
those people.
@SHOW
00:47:01:10 00:47:06:10
We, Muslims, are obliged to
give
someone a present on Friday
morning.
@SHOW
00:47:46:12 00:47:55:07
Because God gave us good
health
and the week passed well.
@SHOW
00:47:55:21 00:48:02:04
Whether this would be a
pack of salt
or a chocolate bar, is not
important.
@SHOW
00:48:02:06 00:48:10:23
But you have to give
something
and preferably to someone
poor.
@SHOW
00:48:11:04 00:48:19:11
Anyway, in the villages now
well-to-do people are very
few.
@SHOW
00:48:20:05 00:48:27:05
The population is mostly
poor
and there are no jobs to
keep them.
@SHOW
00:48:27:08 00:48:33:08
So we try to help out
neighbours,
they help us and that's how it is.
@SHOW
00:48:33:10 00:48:37:24
When one gets up in the
morning
has one's meal and feels
good,
@SHOW
00:48:38:02 00:48:43:04
he will do his best
as long as he's not lazy.
@SHOW
00:48:43:07 00:48:47:21
I was hurt by a colleague
of mine,
a Catholic; he cut me with
a knife.
@SHOW
00:48:48:00 00:48:54:23
I went through
a lot of operations and suffering.
@SHOW
00:48:55:01 00:49:00:05
And even though it was 10
years,
I still feel some pain in
my lung.
@SHOW
00:49:00:09 00:49:08:11
He pierced my left lung,
less than an inch from my
heart.
@SHOW
00:49:08:14 00:49:15:06
And many people discussed
the case with me and told
me
@SHOW
00:49:16:11 00:49:22:18
that I was a fool
for not taking my revenge on him.
@SHOW
00:49:22:19 00:49:28:18
But for me revenge is evil.
@SHOW
00:49:28:20 00:49:32:15
A man has no right to take
revenge
on another man, only God
has it.
@SHOW
00:49:32:21 00:49:38:20
Because
if I had started revenge on
him,
@SHOW
00:49:38:23 00:49:42:14
his children
would revenge against mine
@SHOW
00:49:42:16 00:49:45:11
and things would never be
cleared.
@SHOW
00:49:45:14 00:49:48:05
Therefore I put it behind.
What's done can't be
undone.
@SHOW
00:49:48:09 00:49:53:19
I thank God that
my children were not left orphans.
@SHOW
00:49:53:21 00:49:57:18
5-6 years ago I was going
to
the town in winter, in a
snow storm.
@SHOW
00:49:57:20 00:50:02:23
In the middle of the road
I saw a man walking
@SHOW
00:50:03:02 00:50:07:09
and I saw that this was
the colleague who cut me.
@SHOW
00:50:07:12 00:50:12:15
I passed him with my car
and stopped.
He ran towards the car.
@SHOW
00:50:12:19 00:50:17:24
When he saw it was me,
he gasped in distress.
@SHOW
00:50:18:02 00:50:22:08
"You are welcome
in", I said.
"Where to in that
blizzard?"
@SHOW
00:50:22:09 00:50:26:15
As soon as he sat by me,
tears streamed down his
cheeks.
@SHOW
00:50:26:18 00:50:31:08
He realized that he made
a terrible mistake back
then.
@SHOW
00:50:31:11 00:50:37:23
But I told him that I did
not want
the incident mentioned any
more.
@SHOW
00:50:38:00 00:50:42:16
So, I asked him about
himself and
he started telling me of his affairs.
@SHOW
00:50:42:19 00:50:47:17
When we arrived in the
town,
@SHOW
00:50:47:19 00:50:50:03
he stepped out of the car
and shook my hand.
@SHOW
00:50:50:05 00:50:54:03
Some days later
Yana, Nacho's wife, told me
@SHOW
00:50:54:07 00:50:58:14
the man was saying round
the village
that he was sorry for what
he did
@SHOW
00:50:58:18 00:51:05:01
and that Boiko, the Muslim,
proved to be a nice person
indeed.
@SHOW
00:51:05:02 00:51:11:12
When I was in the hospital
only
Yana and Nacho
@SHOW
00:54:05:19 00:54:11:02
went home to comfort my
wife.
@SHOW
00:54:11:05 00:54:16:09
On the 3rd day
they called the hospital
@SHOW
00:54:16:13 00:54:21:19
to ask about my condition.
@SHOW 00:54:21:22
00:54:25:04
I was in the glass room
where they put hopeless
cases.
@SHOW
00:54:25:11 00:54:33:14
There were three of us
@SHOW
00:54:35:08 00:54:37:18
and the person next to me
died the same night.
@SHOW
00:54:37:20 00:54:43:06
When they called from my
village
to ask about me
@SHOW
00:54:43:10 00:54:46:24
some nurse told them:
"He died last night."
@SHOW
00:54:47:00 00:54:52:18
The mayor was shocked
and did not know how to
tell my wife.
@SHOW
00:54:52:22 00:55:01:20
It is very hard to say:
"Your husband
died."
@SHOW
00:55:01:23 00:55:06:11
He went to Yana and Nacho,
knowing that our families
were close.
@SHOW
00:55:06:14 00:55:12:11
He told Yana: "What
are we
going to go? Boiko
died."
@SHOW
00:55:12:15 00:55:16:11
"But how is it
possible?"
"Well, that's what
they told me."
@SHOW
00:55:16:14 00:55:20:21
They decided to call her
brother,
who lives in the nearby
town.
@SHOW
00:55:20:24 00:55:28:03
He came to the hospital in
Haskovo.
@SHOW
00:55:29:19 00:55:32:20
We had met only once
before.
So, he stood at the door.
@SHOW
00:55:32:22 00:55:39:10
"Boiko, how are
you?", he asked.
"I'm O.K.", I
said.
@SHOW
00:55:39:18 00:55:44:06
"Do you know me?"
"No."
@SHOW
00:55:44:09 00:55:46:12
"I'm Yana's
brother", he said.
@SHOW
00:55:46:15 00:55:49:09
Then he cried
and I started crying too.
@SHOW
00:55:49:12 00:55:52:09
"Did my folks call
you?", I asked.
@SHOW
00:55:52:12 00:55:54:22
He replied they asked him to check
if I needed anything.
@SHOW
00:55:55:00 00:55:58:24
So, I told him I needed
my shaving kit.
@SHOW
00:55:59:03 00:56:01:22
When he got back home
he called Yana.
@SHOW
00:56:01:23 00:56:04:16
Yana went to my wife
to tell her I was all
right.
@SHOW
00:56:04:17 00:56:09:22
Later she also told her
about
the false announcement of my death.
@SHOW
00:56:10:01 00:56:16:05
That's for you because
you were so good today.
@SHOW
00:59:00:08 00:59:05:00
Grandpa will give you a
treat.
Here you are.
@SHOW
00:59:05:01 00:59:10:20
If you were like that every
day
I might be a millionaire.
@SHOW
00:59:16:00 00:59:20:24
Grandpa will award you.
@SHOW
00:59:24:07 00:59:27:05
In the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy
Spirit.
@SHOW
00:59:55:21 00:59:59:14
Our Father in heaven.
Hallowed be Your name.
@SHOW
00:59:59:17 01:00:02:19
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done.
@SHOW
01:00:02:21 01:00:05:12
On earth as it is in
heaven.
Give us this day our daily
bread...
@SHOW
01:00:05:15 01:00:11:00
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