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A different world
Lacrima Andreica
RomaniaGALLERYCONVERSATION
This is something we didn't know under the communist regime. I can write today about fairies and angels, about God and about all...
My grandmother never had access to education. She had to work and help her mother so she took care about all her younger brothers and sisters. She faced the two World Wars. My mother lived the World War II, the starvation after it and the communism which followed. I opened my eyes into a world of lies, small and dark. As a teenager I learned that people kill for nothing. During the Revolution I saw how peoples die for theirs beliefs and dreams and I learned how to dream.

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