Dragana (Dragana Vitas)

(Person, Yugoslavia)

She was in VIII₃ when we were in the elementary. Then 1st grade of gimnazija we weren't in the same class, but were afterwards, in IV_5pp. We were even deskmates for a semester, IIRC in 1972*. One of the beauties of the generation, and still looks good. Never married, maybe on account of a bad leg that she earned in a crash some time around 1985. She was driving, and was driving a lot before that, even before she got a license. But after spending three months in hospital, she just decided she won't drive anymore, and never extended the license (which she got only after taking off the cast). Walks regularly and there are no visible marks, just when walking down the stairs, if you know where to look, you may notice that she lifts the left leg somewhat funny. Can't sit more than a couple of hours without lifting her legs, or at least the left one, to about horizontal, for a few minutes, then she can go on for more hours.

Used to live on ruža until 1972, and then her dad, some upper manager in NuProm, got an apartment in Lesnina, which she later inherited. Though, during my stint in stour, of which the NuProm was a member, I never heard his name mentioned, and I did hear a bundle.

There was a supermarket under the apartment, also owned by NuProm. By one story, the space was supposed to be storage for the shop, but then got converted into an apartment - the rest of the building was populated by 1959 or 63, thereabouts, and the other story claims that this was not storage, but rather a general purpose space. If any of this is true, why does it then have the same layout as the apartment above, with identical terrace and bathroom, and no staircase from the shop?

Decades later, some guy who bought the shop and rented its space out to some new shops, sued her, because he claimed the apartment was a part of the shop, and she should move out. Zero success, but cost her ten years of nuisance, cost and nerves.

Graduated law, and worked in a bank. That's where I last saw her before leaving for the US. Then the bank went bust (during one of the neocolonial machinations) and she got a state job - a secretary in the electrotech high school, until she retired by the end of 2014.

She was always the best chick in the class, even fifty years after. Regular on each parastos. Doesn't leave the apartment without at least some makeup, picks her clothing carefully, and her fingers are a barometer - if she wears less than four rings, it's blazing hot, if more than seven, then it's freezing.

Her memorable quotes would be lost in translation. Practically all of them. Here goes, without explanation, you try to figure it out.

„there's as much of it as you don't want“

„to my [dick] and back“

„not even in a letter“

„farmacizzle“ (to denote a female pharmacist)

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* I misremembered this, it was just for one day, but that day she had trouble with her boot buckle, which I then tried to fix. I hadn't quite managed to do much, fixed it only partially, but it was... interesting and memorable.

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