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ERWIN KOCH

ANGELA & ANDREI-PROTOCOL OF A LOVE

ERWIN KOCH

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.

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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.

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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 colorgray green.
Nina U. said: In four weeks time we
are leaving, in five youll be already here.

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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,

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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

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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.

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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.

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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,

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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- motive for the stay:

Medical treatments

Note from the translator- Center for Rehabilitation

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

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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.

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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.

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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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