JOSIP

Vesna

Miroševac

My dad was a real \"scorpion\" father. I mean, of course, the zodiac sign. Caring, sometimes possessive, sometimes more rudely possessive. But he was my father, the way he was because I didn't know others, so how could I when dad is the only one. Basically, he was quite strict and you couldn't really joke with him too much. But you could always rely on him! Now, what is more important to whom? It was certainly the latter for me. I would now go back in my memory to former times, to the time of my childhood. Zagreb, Dubrava, upper Dubrava. I was about 6 years old and every day my klapa and I \"dusted\" our streets. They played, explored the nearby Maksimir or Žuti breg, ran after the posters that would be thrown out by the sailboats around the time of the Fair or ran under the rainbow. It was a time of games different from today's. The game that didn't require too much movement was that of swapping icons. Popular at that time, I can't even remember if they were from some kind of chocolate box or... Basically, everyone carried their treasure with them in pictures that we then exchanged. There were a lot of duplicates as well as unique ones that were owned by only one individual and were difficult to come by. And I really wanted one that I didn't have, so I offered my value, which were my father's partisan decorations. They were in a wooden box in the attic, where I would inspect them in weekly inventories. One thumbnail for one award. Golden. With a red star or something else just as gorgeous. After the first exchange, more of those unique items appeared that I had to have! So the wooden box was emptying and fell on some badges. I could have replaced them too if dad hadn't found out what I was doing up in the attic. And you know, my dad, strict as he was, called me into the room to tell him what and how the decorations disappeared. When I tearfully told him about it, he laughed and said that he didn't need it anymore anyway and he would see which lapels it would shine on. They are not on any.

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