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Well, I set down and learnt how to mend stockings.
I could do it so rapidly, almost like the machine. [Editor’s note: Stockings could be repaired not only with a needle, but also with a mechanic invisible mending machine.] My hands got so used to it.
Thus I earned more than my husband, because stockings were a problem, it wasn’t that simple that I go to the shop [and buy]. Sometimes you could find, sometimes you couldn’t. I had a lot of work, I always went to bed at half past one in the night. Because during the day I had to cook, I had to do cleaning. And I had three rooms, I let out one, I was mending, we felt want for nothing.
I could do it so rapidly, almost like the machine. [Editor’s note: Stockings could be repaired not only with a needle, but also with a mechanic invisible mending machine.] My hands got so used to it.
Thus I earned more than my husband, because stockings were a problem, it wasn’t that simple that I go to the shop [and buy]. Sometimes you could find, sometimes you couldn’t. I had a lot of work, I always went to bed at half past one in the night. Because during the day I had to cook, I had to do cleaning. And I had three rooms, I let out one, I was mending, we felt want for nothing.
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Romania
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Alice Kosa