Where were you in your parents plans?
My parents were both born in the mid Sixties and they always had the music 🎶 of the era playing on their sound system (CD player) which was a very revolutionary thing in rural Carpathian terms. They had access to a number of different music from Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
My Dad was a big fan of the British band The Beatles, and especially John Lennon. He often reread a book of surreal poetry that Lennon wrote which my Dad got through a friend who went to West Berlin (before the reunification of Germany 🇩🇪).
My parents married and had my brother in the late Eighties, and when I came along in 1999, I was very much a surprise to them both, but my mother doted on me, and I was her dress-up doll in effect, all she hadn’t been able to do with my brother she could do with me!
My parents were committed to their family and I can honestly say they seldom left our home to go anywhere else in Ukraine 🇺🇦 because of their contentment. I am completely different from my parents in that I have been travelling extensively. I have visited most countries in Europe and that includes Russia (the summer before the war began I went to Moscow with two friends from University).
So, unplanned and a little bewildered my parents ventured to travel to Kyiv to see me only four times in all their lives and on the last visit to see me in my shared apartment they were killed by a shell from a Russian tank in 2022.
My Dad was a big fan of the British band The Beatles, and especially John Lennon. He often reread a book of surreal poetry that Lennon wrote which my Dad got through a friend who went to West Berlin (before the reunification of Germany 🇩🇪).
My parents married and had my brother in the late Eighties, and when I came along in 1999, I was very much a surprise to them both, but my mother doted on me, and I was her dress-up doll in effect, all she hadn’t been able to do with my brother she could do with me!
My parents were committed to their family and I can honestly say they seldom left our home to go anywhere else in Ukraine 🇺🇦 because of their contentment. I am completely different from my parents in that I have been travelling extensively. I have visited most countries in Europe and that includes Russia (the summer before the war began I went to Moscow with two friends from University).
So, unplanned and a little bewildered my parents ventured to travel to Kyiv to see me only four times in all their lives and on the last visit to see me in my shared apartment they were killed by a shell from a Russian tank in 2022.
