Putting it here because it's a saturday, and it's a wedding. Though I somehow remember that it was a thursday - and yet couldn't even remember the year, could be anything between spring 1985 and now. Had to ask (... 3 words...) and this is what she remembered:
- they got married about a year before Silvija was born.
- we visited once when it was her first birthday (so there's another date)
- and once more, or maybe twice - once when they moved into the apartment near the cargo railway station, once when they baptized the kids.
The wedding itself I remember, in a couple of flashes (half of which may belong to his first wedding). First, the ceremony at the matricular was shortest I ever saw - there were six of us: the couple, the kum, the female kuma, and we two. And so we just walked over the square to the hotel to have a dinner and a few drinks. Nothing big, nothing solemn, just a snug little party. However, there was a serious mismatch - kum was Arpi's pal from work, perhaps otherwise a good guy, but he had nothing to say. On the other hand, the kuma was looking twice better and sexier than the bride, and had three small rings in the edge of each ear, well they'd be called earrings, right.
I was seriously asking myself who made the wrong moves here. But we left it at that and over the next eighteen years had very little contact with them. Perhaps Arpi would drop by for a moba here and there, but then we were mostly finished with those, there weren't any big ones left, so we left him alone with his new family.
22-V-2023 - 31-X-2025