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special
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House purchase
One family we got to know from the beginning was the Kalas family. The father, Stipo, could not even attempt to find work as he suffered severe epilepsy and often wore a bicycle helmet to protect his head when he fell. His wife, Ankica, worked hard to organise their one room in the unit at Fuzine to make it as much a home as possible for her husband and the two children, Ivana who was six when they arrived, and brother Dragan, who was three. Ankica made lace items, slippers, doyleys, etc., when she could get the materials and sold them to tourists to raise a little money.
In 2001, some Welsh people were visiting Fuzine at a point when Srecko was working on the idea of buying run-down property cheaply, refurbishing it and transferring some of the families back into ‘normal’ life...
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