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Figure 12: Paths and places from the story of Aspasia, born in 1933.
Olgha is younger than other story-tellers. She moved to Tirana during the period of
communism. She regularly returns to the village to take care of her ill parents. The mapping
of her story is similar to others. “Whereness” of Dhërmi/Drimades is located in relation to
places behind the mountains: Trubaç, Vranisht and Labëria. As some women who went there
to exchange their goods for wheat happened to be attacked by robbers, these places are
identified with danger and badness. The contacts with these places are in her story limited to
the time after the World War II. She puts another place on the map, Yugoslavia, where her
father was sent by the Labour Party of Albania.
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