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My mother was called Regina Klein, she was born from my grandmother’s second marriage [in 1989]. My mother too attended the school of the French misses in Bucharest, from the age of 10 until she got 14. After that she went to Paris as well to her brother, her sister was already there.
She stayed there for quite a long time, she spoke French perfectly. That’s why I’m Alice. My mother was famous in the village for her beauty, it was always her who played the leading lady.
She left two violins [after her death], because she learnt to play the violin. I don’t remember my mother, but the villagers told me how beautiful she was, and she was playing the violin splendidly. And she could sing too, but I don’t have a fine voice, I didn’t inherit that. And my mother wrote poems too, she sent them to the women’s magazine.
She stayed there for quite a long time, she spoke French perfectly. That’s why I’m Alice. My mother was famous in the village for her beauty, it was always her who played the leading lady.
She left two violins [after her death], because she learnt to play the violin. I don’t remember my mother, but the villagers told me how beautiful she was, and she was playing the violin splendidly. And she could sing too, but I don’t have a fine voice, I didn’t inherit that. And my mother wrote poems too, she sent them to the women’s magazine.
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Alice Kosa