Hermina Vlasopolos - April 9, 1984
Bucharest
Yeah. So you stayed in Oradea. Did you wait there for five years until you found out, or did you...
Pardon?
Oradea, did you...
No, no. I was only in Oradea a few days and then I went to Bucharest.
Okay, and stayed there.
And uh, I met a friend of mine from before. He was actually a friend of, of the family. And uh, I met him on the street without knowing that he's alive, you know, he knowing that I'm alive. He was with a big staff behind him, you know, like a man who people surrounded. And we, we start, you know--it was funny because I had, I had my relatives, I mean, that I'm in Bucharest and I arrived and I was staying with an aunt of mine. And she gave me some clothes, you know, to, to put on and uh, I said to I'm going to one of my cousins. And uh, she told me, "Well, don't forget to bring me," I don't know, "something from ???." And uh, I was going toward my cousin's house Sunday afternoon, probably they're not at home, you know, must have gone somewhere. And I turned back and I entered the pastry shop to buy her some pastry, and when I come out of the pastry shop, I mean, because it was meant for me to meet him. I meet him all, face to face like this on the street and we hadn't seen each other for three years. And I, you know. And I told him that I was. And he, he hadn't been...
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