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My mother died when she was 23. A nice family, as one might call it, disintegrated within hours. We lived in a village, in Nagyborosnyo, and my mother came in with the three children [to Sepsiszentgyorgy, to grandma]and with the domestic – of course we had a domestic, as there were three children.
And she died in two or three days. She must have had appendicitis, because they dissected her, and she was full of pus inside, I suppose they couldn’t discover it then. I met many people during my long life, whose parents died in a similar way. Well, appendicitis wasn’t known, and due to poultices it turned into peritonitis.
She left behind three little children. When she died, I was 3 years old, my brother one and a half and my sister six months old.
And she died in two or three days. She must have had appendicitis, because they dissected her, and she was full of pus inside, I suppose they couldn’t discover it then. I met many people during my long life, whose parents died in a similar way. Well, appendicitis wasn’t known, and due to poultices it turned into peritonitis.
She left behind three little children. When she died, I was 3 years old, my brother one and a half and my sister six months old.
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Nagyborosnyo
Romania
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Alice Kosa