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kathe beshas ando Pankaszi. Kothe opre so si<br />
amen o cino kher, kamlom te bikinav les thaj<br />
chi trubul khanyikaske.<br />
cigány vagyok. Nem gyöttek rá. Nem tudták<br />
elképzelni. Sok ember gondol kozik, hogy na,<br />
mostan ô bevallja, hogy cigány, én meg azt<br />
mondom: ne vallja be. Ne vallja be, mindig elôre<br />
jut, tagadja el, ha el tudja tagadni. Rá se gondoltak<br />
volna, hogy nem magyar vagyok. Úgyhogy<br />
egyátalán, másképp nem is kezeltek, mint magyart.<br />
(…)<br />
Mit mondjak, hát én élek. Most élem az éle -<br />
temet, kapom a kevés nyugdíjamat, megvan<br />
annyi, hogy megélünk. Normális életet élünk.<br />
Annyi van, amit megeszünk. Megvan minden,<br />
ami kell. Van egy hegyem is fenn a Zalába, egy<br />
kis házam, ott laktunk, de az asszony cukros<br />
lett, nem mertünk fenn lakni, mert bekómált<br />
éjjel, nem tudunk vele lejönni, így elgyüttünk.<br />
Azóta itt lakunk. Ott fenn van egy kis házunk<br />
összkomfortos, árulom, de senkinek se kell.<br />
Annyit hirdetem, de senki nem veszi meg.<br />
was clever and they did not know that I was a<br />
Rom, and I denied it. I denied it wherever I<br />
was. Sometimes, at work, where they did not<br />
know that I was Rom, they said the word<br />
‘Gypsy’ and I would get pissed off. Because they<br />
were hundred times filthier than the Roma and<br />
abused the Roma. I’d always tell them, Roma<br />
were better than you. ’Cos they did not know<br />
that I was Rom. They had never found out.<br />
They did not think of it. Many people are<br />
thinking, whether or not they should tell that<br />
they are Roma; well, I say: don’t. Don’t tell, and<br />
you can advance; deny it, when you can. They<br />
had never thought that I was not Hungarian.<br />
Therefore they did not treat me differently at<br />
all.<br />
(…)<br />
What can I say? I am alive. I live my life, get my<br />
slight pension, I earn enough to live on. We live<br />
a normal life. We eat what we have. We have<br />
everything that we want. I have a<br />
little place in Zala, and a house up there. We<br />
used to live there but my wife had become<br />
diabetic and we did not dare to live there,<br />
because when she got sick we could not take<br />
her down to the doctors; so we moved. Since<br />
then we have lived here. Up there we have a<br />
house with every modern comfort. I am selling<br />
it, but nobody wants it. I advertise it a lot, but<br />
nobody wants it.<br />
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