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“No, it’s not normal is it? It doesn’t happen all the time does it?” It was a fair<br />

defence for an indefensible crime.<br />

That seemed to be the end of it.<br />

“Don’t do it next weekend. We will visit Mama.” She said walking off into the<br />

bedroom.<br />

I was going to meet her mum. A week full of nerves and worry, I was still hung<br />

over the following Wednesday and only on the Friday did I begin to feel happy<br />

about us taking that awkward step of meeting the parents.<br />

“Fist-say-go n-eye-lep-sh-ish-a-go.”<br />

Chapter 17<br />

I was trying to learn how to say happy birthday in <strong>Polish</strong>. It was for Elly’s mum,<br />

even though it wasn’t her birthday. It was her name day. <strong>The</strong> communist’s may<br />

have been defeated but the communal celebrations continued. Name days<br />

perplex me because sometimes the day of celebration is months away from your<br />

actual birthday and sometimes there are different days on which you can have a<br />

party for your name.<br />

Two birthdays or more a year, every ageing woman’s worst nightmare.

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