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Submitted to Contest #21
I was born in a poor working-class, patriarchal family, who didn't give any importance to the holidays. We did not celebrate birthdays, New Year ... only Bajram (a great Muslim holiday). For the children, a New Year always represented an important holiday to be remembered by Santa Claus. Only when I was seven years old, when I attended the first grade of elementary school, it was the first time I saw Santa Claus. I've heard of other children that he is an old man with a white beard, the red boots and a red cap on his head, dressed in a red s...
Submitted to Contest #9
In the suburb of a Bosnian town, one winter night, she was completely conceived by mistake. It was not planned that her father, after three marriages and ten children who had already, to be the father of this eleventh child in a row. He was already in the years, and just at that time he had got grand-daughter of the son from his first marriage, therefore it was not questionable whether is it okay to come into the world this child too. If it would be born it would be pure surplus, burdensome and shame for this family, and Good heavens, d...
Submitted to Contest #5
I grew up in a patriarchal family where it was known who was "head" at home. Of course, it was a father. All asked him for everything, and my mother had a role to play at home, but a minor. She was illiterate, grew up in the village, and married in a city for a man whom this was not the first marriage. He had six children from his first marriage, who my mother ''inherited'' by entering into this marriage because their mother had died, so she additionally received also the role of step-mother. She was humble, listening to her husband wit...
When you are working on a big cleaning, in your home or your apartment, you can hire a woman who knows and wants to do such jobs, who will be paid for it, but in this cleaning there is a lot of work which you can and you have to do only yourself (inside of wardrobes, commodes, cupboards, chest of drawers,...). The cleaning of the kitchen should be given special attention. Regardless of whether it's big or small, it requires that it be devoted a lot of time if you care to clean and to make order each corner properly. The kitchen is it! The on...
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