Angela & Andrei-Protocol of a Love

0 E R W I N K O C H ANGELA & ANDREI-PROTOCOL OF A LOVE


ERWIN KOCH

ANGELA & ANDREI - PROTOCOL OF A LOVE

translated from German into English by IGOR POP TRAJKOV

V.2015

Have you already kissed?

Angela is 13, born on 6.7.1974 in

Mingir, Soviet Republic of Moldavia.

Andrei is 2 years older, born in Mingir at the

eastern part of Europe.

You should kiss with lust, not with

your teeth, commented the girls.

Her blood type is AB Rh+.

His blood type is B Rh+.

Angela is the youngest from the 3

children, Andrei is the youngest from the

7500 families in this countryside. His father

was driving tractors in the kolkhoz, his is the

milkman. When Andrei Chitanu attended the

kitchen, Angela Botezatu kindly went in bad

with him. The omen of his ancestors reached

him while shopping.

During the summer dust, during the

winter mud.

Angela, 15, the school begins, lasts

one year at her sister Ala in Ukraine, who is

praline maker. Andrei stayed in Mingir, he

was waiting and working, where there is

plenty of work, in the kolkhoz, Andrei had a

long dark hair, face with visage of a poor

guy.

During the day, before he became

recruit of the red army, Angela presented

him a blue box.

For the letters, which I will mail to

him, one each day.

She was doubting, Angela mistrusted

him, she was doubting and waiting.

1.6.1990, 06.00, Andrei entered the

bus. 4 days later the first letter: Now I am

bold as an apple.

Angela numerated Andreis letter,

she put it in the blue box, 22 months period

of time, 600 letters, nr. 126: I LOVE YOU.

In April 1992 Andrei came back in

the village, that is no more part of the Soviet

Union, at that time living on a hill in a little

white house property of his parents.

Without any job at the edge of

Europe.

Andrei Chitanu, 20, and Angela

Botezatu, 18, headed towards Siberia,

Angela left, before she went away, a note on

the table: Mom, daddy, I am not going to

stay without Andrei.

7 days in a train towards Solikamsk,

4 hours in a boat towards Kercevo.

Andrei is now a rafter, Angela cooks

for him, brings him water in the wood,

bread, foods, kisses. Angela is pregnant.

On 6.9.1992 she is again in Mingir,

Moldavia, 28 000 Russian roubles in her

baggage.

On 7.9.1992 Andrei sent, all fatigued

and pusillanimous, on a visit, his friend to

the parents of Angela.

Andrei Chitanu, during his stay on

that hill, through his friend asked for the

hand of their daughter Angela, that is when

he said, that he loves Angela as he loves

himself and that he will always love her and

he will take care for her forever.

White wedding, 25.10.1992.


6 days later after the ceremony, still

at her parents place, than at his parents

garden, they placed a tent, in which 3 table

rows, Andrei had bought a swine, he had

slaughtered, what is spent is already spent,

his daily expenses were progressively

increasing.

With 6 other guys from the village

Mingir Andrei traveled towards Sverdlovsk,

Russia, he became a stable man, Angela, 18

and pregnant, stayed with her mother, filling

the blue box.

2 months later Andrei came back,

7500 Roubles.

On 15.3.1993 a son is born, 7 weeks

earlier than the proper date, 1400gr. Angela

had brought him up in this world in a

hospital room in Carpineni, the village next

to theirs, her child is so skinny, she made an

excursion with him to the capital of this

country Chisinau, her son was waking up in

her bed.

About 3 times Andrei went in

Russia, 6000km long journey, to work as a

fireman in the station in Surgut.

Angela, 19, and her son Jon lived at

Angelas mother place. The parents of

Andrei did not feel sad that the child was

named by the name of the father of Angela,

not by the name of the one that have made

him - by the name of the father of the father.

He lent an ear to her, he whispered to

her, as a faithful dog.

October, Andrei returns from Russia.

It would have been better, if he had

stayed in Siberia, complained Angela.

Andrei is day-laborer, mason,

builder, maestro for everything, second-hand

salesman, wine maker, guard, tractor driver,

road worker, factory worker, cook.

The birth of Vasile, 8.10.1995.

Andrei, 23, he gave him some soap from his

parents.

When she did not know how to keep

herself going any further, Angela lighted a

candle in the church and felt ashamed, since

she didnt pay for the candle.

Angela and Andrei went away from

the little white house of their parents so that

they can went to a street with no name,

without any water supply, without

electricity, with the toilet in the garden,

occupied by hens.

This is what happens to everybody

here, the same happens even if they do

things differently, he said, everybody here is

poor.

All with an exception of Nina,

thought Angela.

Nina U. as her name was, became

reach, since she had retailed one kidney of

theirs, October 1998.

May I help you, you are young and

healthy, 3000 Dollars for a kidney, one

week entirely will be necessary, one short

week in Istanbul, soon you will have no

headaches, nevertheless you will have a lot

of money.

Not you, said Andrei.

I will go, said Angela. It is

groundless one to think that a human needs

two kidneys. One is entirely enough.

Since Andrei does not let me travel,

she thought, I will travel secretly.

Angela gave to Nina U. her personal

data, day after she had her Moldavian

passport, A1486930, tall 155sm, eye color-

gray green.

Nina U. said: In four weeks time we

are leaving, in five youll be already here.


Not you!, pleaded Andrei.

And Angela was impregnated.

We have no pregnant, said Nina U.

Then I will go.

But how? You have no money.

When are you going to borrow me

from the payment for my kidney?,

demanded to Angela Chitanu, 24 years old,

November 1998.

I am not a bank.

Nor the rest are doing better, said

Andrei, here everyone is poor and does not

complain about it.

Theres no money for butter.

Angela burned all 600 letters, nr.126

will not burn, I LOVE YOU.

In April 1999 Andrei offered

himself, to be on Angelas place, to give a

kidney to Nina U. Angela said: Not you,

probably you are right, sometimes

everything is better like this.

From time to time, in duration of 4

hours, Angela worked in the tin factory in

Mingir, the payments were as for a lamp in

the kitchen, as for a mirror in the bedroom.

Not you.

At 25.6 1999, in Friday afternoon,

Nina U. drove to their place with a car.

Andrei, left within half an hour time,

as the things go while leaving a small place.

Andrei lied to Angela, while she was

in the tin factory, leaving her a note on the

table: I went for a job!

In the clothes that had a bread in its

pocket he stayed one week, and in those

same clothes Andrei Chitanu entered the car

of Nina U., they were traveling for Krivoi

Rog in Ukraine, they stayed three days in a

hotel, they traveled towards Zaporoje, flew

to Istanbul, which took length of two hours,

29.6.1999, arrival at 13.05. In Istanbul she

took Andrei in an apartment, he was

supposed to drink a lot, so that he will rinse

the kidneys. A doctor checked Andreis

pulse, checked his blood, blood type B Rh+,

heard his heart and lung. The next morning

she took Andrei, 27, in a hotel, which he

wasnt allowed to leave, during the night she

was taking him to a hospital, where they

took him some extra blood, than she took

him back.

Angela was presuming, where

Andrei is, than she lighted a candle at the

window of the little white house.

Your father found a job, she told her

sons, in two days time he will be back.

Andrei had found some kind of job,

she told her mother.

In Friday, 2.7.1999, Andrei Chitanu

telephoned a neighbor, who was also in the

no name street, Mingir, Republic of

Moldavia, poor country on a territory of

Europe, and told him, that in Sunday he will

call again, this Sunday in a particular time,

Angela was supposed in Sunday to be at her

neighbors place, and speak with her

husband.

Work here goes outstandingly, said

Andrei, people here make good money.

In Sunday he wasnt allowed to eat,

nor was he allowed to drink water from the

tab.

In Sunday, 4.7.1999, she took him to

the surgery, early morning in Istanbul.

During 3 hours time Andrei Chitanu lied in

a room, with a needle in his hand, than she

pushed his bad in a lighted room. There, on

a table, was lying an anesthetized woman,

all with sun spots. Somebody folded her in


bands and told him is Russian: Count till

ten, Andrei managed till four.

I am to blame, that he went away,

thought Angela while in her neighbors

house, the one that had a phone.

Andrei woke up without knowing,

where he is. Somebody told him to drink

something, to move, somebody dedicated

himself to his wound, cleaning it up and

immobilizing it. 5 days after the surgical

operation Andrei was sleeping in the

apartment of a man, who spoke only

Turkish.

Sunday, 10.7.1999, 6 days after the

operation, Andrei Chitanu entered a bus, the

man, the one that spoke only Turkish, gave

him 2900 US-$, Andrei counted the money

and did not complain, where disappeared the

missing 100 US-$.

2 days in a bus, from Istanbul

through Bulgaria, through Romania, through

Moldavia. His left leg hurts, everything

hurts. Andrei, in a panic, that somebody may

take a look in his rectum, hided the money

in his slippers.

Angela looked through the window,

since she heard some walking in the garden,

hence it was a night. She is going to

welcome him. Andrei counted the money,

Angela was already in front of the house,

she hugged her husband.

He said: Hide that, so that nobody

can see it.

His leg was hurting, his stomach, his

back.

2 days later somebody stood in front

of the house, asking weather somebody is

interested for a particular job, road building,

Andrei Chitanu asked: When?

Now.

Andrei was digging gravel, he made

no effort, in taking his shirt off.

Washing machine, television,

telephone, clothes, shoes, wallpaper, tint for

the garden fence, green and white, 1000

US-$ sent Angela to her sister Ala, that lived

in Ukraine and needed money, so that she

can buy herself forged documents for a trip

to Italy.

23.8.1999, Angela gave birth of her

third son.

Andreis back hurt, he lied on the

bed, so that Angela could give him a

massage.

They have no money for a doctor.

Dust in summer, mud in winter.

Angela Chitanu, in duration of 3 or 4

hours, worked in a tin factory, Andrei

nevertheless was building, or on the field, in

the garden, a storm destroyed their

seedlings, the vineyards behind the house,

summer 2003.

Sometimes telephoned the sister of

Angela from Italy, and was sending them

envelope with 20 in it.

I am going in Italy, decided Angela.

To whom?, asked Andrei.

To whom!, she shouted, to whom!

She knew a man, cousin of their

cousins, who had bought a passport and

visa, 2100 for the flight ticket from

Mingir.

To whom?

I am sending you money, a lot of

money, such an amount you have not seen

yet.

But.

Think about the children, she said.

Andrei sold their stove, the pig, three

hens, the fridge.


Beginning of November 2003,

Angela Chitanu entered the bus, its early

morning, it is still dark. In her bag she has a

photo from her sons, from her husband,

whats left from that candle, a Romanian

passport, nr. 04827096, Aniko Solaghi, born

on 31.8.1976 in Satu Mare. Angela was

memorizing this, she arrives from Gyr,

Hungary. Handcuffs, 2 weeks detention, 60

fine, number of the file B2309/2003/1.

24.11.2003, Andrei heard her

walking in the garden.

2 days later he phoned to the cousin

of their cousins, demanded him to send him

back 2100 , that are now 1500.

This is even better, you are staying

here, said Andrei.

So that the shoes of the sons will not

become filled with mud, Andrei was bearing

the sons, when they had to go to school, on

his back walking through the hill, from the

little white house in which they were, than

again he was bearing them, when they had

to come back from school.

11.3.2004, Angela Chitanu entered

the bus, Svetlana Boskarova, Russian,

whose documents and plain ticket cost

2500. Arresting in the plain from Istanbul,

Angela was sitting with 20 young girls in a

room, nobody had a mobile phone.

Come back home, pleaded Andrei.

He was waiting, he heard nothing

from Angela, in a duration of 4 days. Andrei

threatened the cousin of the cousins with the

police.

Bring back home my wife.

The cousin was traveling with car

from and to Andrei and he brought back his

money, even 100 more. Andrei must, said

the cousin, goes immediately to Istanbul,

give her her Moldavian passport, first thing

the Turks will do when they see the real

passport of Angela, will be to let Angela

free. Andrei asked for the unknown mobile

phone-numbers, he reached Angela while

amongst the detainees.

No, she figured out, they want to

screw you, they will have you here as a

speculator, and without thinking it up they

are going to arrest you.

25.3.2004, Angela Chitanu came

back to Mingir, neighbors in rags.

The cousin of the cousins went to

their place once in 3. Then he went away.

No!, stated Andrei.

30.7.2004, Svetlana Andreeva,

2700. In a car for Odessa, with a plane for

Vienna, for Milan. Dozens of Chinese in the

flight, actually inside there were only

Chinese, thought Angela, she is sitting in a

wrong plane, she begun to sweat and had no

courage for asking about this. Andrei stayed

in the house on the hill, waiting, anybody for

a call, the police or Angela, the arrival in

Milano in 18.50. Angela Chitanu, 30, had

fallen in the hands of her older sister Ala,

Angela was trembling and feeling guilty, she

couldnt talk.

Her sister told her: You are

exhausting yourself as a peasants stomach

on a wedding trip.

Ala took Angela through the

boutiques in the city, she dressed her nicely.

Ala wanted to find certain job for Angela

and had no success finding, not even one 1.

A long week, one 2., one 3., Angela

borrowed from Ala 100 and sent them to

Andrei.

My first salary, my love.


Andrei went to the big city Hincesti,

for the first time in his life he visited a bank,

and opened an account.

Ala gave Angela her working place,

in Vercelli, half an hour distanced from

Milan, Angela was taking care for an old

married couple, Angela was cooking,

cleaning, washing, fitting the place and

cutting the Roses and the Glyzinias, she

grated, composted, 800 a month, from

which 600 she was sending in Mingir,

Moldavia. Angela lived in a house that was

private property, during the night she was

thinking about the nameless street.

Angela bought a mobile phone.

Did the leaves from our walnut drop

of?

Children are asking, when are you

going to come back again.

When we begin to do well, said

Angela Chitanu in Vercelli, region of

Piemont.

Vasile, the second one, send Angela

a postcard, which contained flowers and a

sun, under which was a signature from his

brothers: When the shutters on our window

tremble, come to us, as the shutters had

become your tears. We wish you plenty of

happiness and good health.

The living room, Andrei, I want you

to base it with shiny laminate, birch, the

wall, the corridor, with bricks, in the outlook

of all this there should be a large fire place,

brown, light-brown one, buy a long hanger

for clothes, carefully wash it, before you

lock everything, straighten the handle, so

that it will not wrinkle.

Andrei installed the water-main in

the house, he did, what Angela wanted, a

bedroom, a new kitchen with stove and

oven, he went in the capital city Chisinau

and bought a computer, he took his sons,

each time they had to go to school, baring

them on his back, walking with them on his

back through that hill, than again he was

baring them back on the top of the hill, so

that their shoes will not be filled with mud.

And a new window, Andrei.

Neighbors in rags.

Angela was sending flower seed

from Italy for their garden. The seed did not

begin to sprout.

The youngest, 6, was sleeping during

the night aside Andrei, 33.

Yesterday they asked him, where is

he going to sleep, when you come back.

What did you tell him?

Beneath the bed.

And then?

He became calm, said Andrei.

I have this worry, she told him.

As a consequence of what?

From everything I have ever heard.

How do you mean everything?, he

asked.

7 times Andrei traveled to Hincesti

to fill his fallen teeth with gold.

On 10.11.2005, Thursday, 06.15,

Angela had send Andrei a SMS: Here

everything good, I wish a good day, kiss.

Angela was grating the fallen lives in

the garden of her masters, she sweated, she

took off her jacket. After 9 oclock that

evening she went to bed, she couldnt sleep,

she was keeping herself vigil. Headaches,

she could feel them no-more. She must stand

up, she cannot, Angela crawls, she phones

from her mobile phone the daughter of the

married couple, she tells her she has certain

worries, she murmurs while talking on the


phone, Angela faces the truth, that she is laid

on a carrier, coma.

Andrei, with no particular reason so

far, phones Angela, at 10 oclock at night,

11 oclock, he phones her 3 or 4 times. In

the morning he finally reached the sister of

Angela, Ala begun to weep, Angela caught a

hard cold, she is healthy staying already one

week in the hospital.

Pavia, Policlinico San Matteo, Viale

Golgi 19.

Brain bleeding, in the depths and at

the same time epidural, really a rarity,

Angela could hear herself breathing, a tube

that is fixed trough a cut, AB Rh+, machine.

The doctor opened Angelas skull.

Andrei bought the toilet as already

made, the bath, was exactly where Angela

wanted it to be, on the right wall.

Mud.

Coma.

The appointment for an opened

security policy from the Italian Ministry of

Foreign Affairs obliged Angela Chitany to

give authorization with her personal data,

L508669, 28.11.2005, motivo del soggiorno:

Cure mediche1.

2 days after Christmas Angela woke

from her coma, her legs and hands were

paralyzed. She asked for the phone, on

which she was speaking with calmed upper

voice.

Is it warm in the house?

5.1.2006, Andrei entered the bus for

Bucharest, Romania, bread in the baggage,

sausage, a bottle of water. He appeared in

front of the Italian embassy standing in the

waiting line, somebody said: Here you have

1 Note from the translator- motive for the stay:

Medical treatments

no papers! But I am with an invitation!,

answered Andrei. The others were laughing,

Andrei bought a telephone ticket from the

kiosk, telephoned the embassy in front of

which he was standing, saying, that he has to

bring back from the Italian state, to visit his

paralyzed wife. They kept Andrei inside,

they gave him the ticket, the departure of the

plain is in whole day time, 16.10, Andrei

took a taxi, flew away for Milano Malpensa.

That night, in the guesthouse of the

Italian Caritas, he ate his bread, sausage

from Mingir.

She was laughing and did not know

what to say.

He caresses her crippled warm hand.

Tell me everything about our house,

said she.

Everything is clean and new, said he.

And the children?

Three boys.

Angela was laughing.

Theres nothing else we can do about

it, whispered the doctor.

2 weeks is the duration of Andreis

stay in Italy and everyday he goes to the bed

of Angela. The cigarettes, he had bought, 5

times more expensive than in Mingir, he

smoked them always only till their half, than

he was quenching the cigarette, than he was

beginning to smoke the 2nd

one. He was

smoking the remaining half later.

Theres nothing else we can do about

it.

Transferring in the Centro di

Riabilitazione Villa Beretta in

Costamasnaga bei Como, Via N.Sauro 172.

2 Note from the translator- Center for Rehabilitation

Vila Bereta in Costamasnaga near Cuomo, street: N.Sauro 17


From time to time the sister came to visit,

Ala, from time to time the daughter of the

married couple, in whose home Angela

Chitanu was working.

Children sent them the newspapers.

From time to time, when she was

doing well, she was moving her right arm,

spacing 10cm. The left hand, distorted in a

form of fish floss.

8.2.2007, 2 Italian doctors

accompanied Angela Chitanu in an

ambulance plain for Chisinau. The

representatives of the Ministry of the Health

Insurance of Moldavia were inside during

the flight and were speaking all only the

best. They brought Angela in the Institute of

neurology at the department for

neurosurgery, str. Corolenco 2, note 1,

department for reanimation, there, amongst

3 non conscious, she stayed in a duration of

10 days lying, hungry, thirsty, not washed.

Somebody pushed her towards the intense

care, inside 7 ill patients, 1 medical sister,

who was playing cards on the computer,

here is dark and stifling, who wants to visit

Angela, must buy a special protective cloak,

a kind of medical coat, Angela was lying on

a thick cloth, under it there was a hard

plastic, nobody, ever washed that.

Andrei brought the bread and the

sons.

After a while the Italian doctor

telephoned them. Everything is the best, said

the medical sister.

Attack appearing on the back and on

the ass.

She has an attack, alerted Andrei.

That is normal, said the sister, that is

not our guilt.

Lost in the regional hospital in

Hincesti, March 2007. All of a sudden the

electricity went off, in a duration of 8 hours,

Angela had to overcome her pain.

That was, said a doctor, a good

lesson, sometimes even you have to breath

yourself.

Actually I dont like what I just saw,

the doctor told Andrei, but, speaking

between us manly, if I was in your place, I

would ask an opinion also from somebody

else.

Infection of the lung. Andrei even

doesnt go home anymore.

On 21.3.2007 a journal from

Chisinau wrote about this rumor, the

neighbors of the married couple Chitanu in

the village Mingir, region Hincesti, doubts,

the paralysis of the woman was not caused

by the spontaneous brain bleedings, but

from the hit from the Italian system, that

caught Angela on her workplace.

Somebody demanded something to

Andrei Chitany in the capitol city, a

policeman said: Write everything you have

done.

End of April 2007, one Wednesday,

she was bared on the back of Andrei, 35,

Angela, 33, thinned till her skeleton, in a car

that was a property of their friends, he was

leaving his kisses on her back, he closed the

roof of the cabriolet, he fixed Angela on her

sit and accompanied her to Mingir, the hole

in her ass, the gray oxidizing flesh, reach as

pure bones, covered by the roof- protected.

Andrei Chitanu is bringing Angela, with a

birth name Botezatu, indoors, from the right

side he holds the thick curtain, that is spread

in front of the wall from brown breaks, on

the floor from light laminate, birch.


A heaven, said she with upper

calmed voice.

400 Lei a month, 23 rent for taking

care for the crippled.

From time to time Andrei brings a

machine that sucks the slime from Angelas

larynx. He caresses tenderly her back, he

changes her dippers. The sons are washing

the rags and are drying them by hanging

them around the house.

From time to time Andrei steps.

During the night he snoops, so that

he can assure himself that Angela is still

alive.

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