THE CURTAIN OF LOVE It often seems that women are addicts of love. Such a dependency, in fact, is manifested through the woman’s striving to master the art of love by her self-assessment and self-respect. The release from such turbulent feelings of uncertainty relies on the foundations of many thoughts and imaginations that such women have about the stronger sex. This explanation and release is both fictional and imaginary and, at the same time, incomprehensible. It seems that there is no more marvelous feeling than that of the euphoria of amorousness and exaltation. My old acquaintance Andrea S., born in the region of Lerin, was an engineer by profession. He had been living in Canada for more than ten years. Canada is very far away from Macedonia geographically, but nevertheless intimately very close. He was a spiritual person full of pearls of Macedonian life, obviously inherited from his parents in their homeland. I didn’t have a chance to meet this interesting fellow citizen of...

                    2.A STRANGE TWIST OF FATE I got on the plane in Frankfurt airport, flying to New York, and a man was seated next to me. It was the same man I had just met in the airport terminal. So he became my fellow traveler during this journey across the Atlantic. Fortunately this fellow traveler from Macedonia, who was going to visit his parents in the USA, was talkative and interesting, having a broad general knowledge for discussion. His name was Stefan N. He was a civil engineer and had traveled to Europe and America often. His parents came from Ohrid region and had been living in the USA for more than forty years. This time, as he told me, he was going there to see his mother who was very ill and who had, several times, expressed her wish to see him. Unfortunately, her illness prevented her from going to her homeland, Macedonia. We left Frankfurt airport and the plane took us high in the sky. Soon we were served drink...

The Macedonian Emigrants’ Carousel: Love Stories Introduction INTRODUCTION Following my travels all over the world, I have published numerous texts and publications about the Macedonian emigrants who live in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. In addition to our talks about their golgotha, their typical problems and issues of an intimate nature were not avoided. Their genetic connection however with their families is very characteristic. This book titled “The Macedonian Emigrants’ Carousel” bears witness to this claim. It contains 20 confessions of our people at different ages, from different social statuses and no matter in which part of the world they live they nevertheless cherish their undying love for their homeland, their Macedonia. The Macedonian man faces the fact that his major problem in the Diaspora is not only his day-to-day survival, but also his choice of a lifelong mate, to marry and start a family with, since marriage is holy for them and wort...