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« You know what? I’m pleased because I don’t send money to my husband to pay for the electricity. He earns some money by himself. Do you have any idea how many women send money to their husbands back in Bulgaria? And she pays for his ticket to come and see her at Christmas and Easter. He stays there [in Bulgaria] without a job and she sends money. I don’t do these things! I don’t care. […] No, no, no, no! Am I right or wrong? Tell me. »
« I mostly send money rather than things. I pay a woman to take care of my mother and I also pay for my mother’s medicines […] Every month I send 100 euro [to my son]! My daughter-in-law isn’t working because Christiana [her grandchild] isn’t an easy child. She goes to school. She’s eight years old. She [her daughter-in-law] has to take her to school and then back home again. She takes good care of her. And my mother is fine. She doesn’t need much money so to speak, because our house there is big and she also gets a good pension! One hundred and sixty-eight leva. And we also have rented out two of the rooms. So she also gets the rent. She gets along well, but…(laughing). It’s like she’s obsessed by the idea that we don’t have money. She always says, "We don’t have money" (laughing). So in order for me to have some peace, I buy that peace. »
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