This is the life story of my great-grandmother. Her name was Emilija and she was born in 1925 in a village named Vipolže in Goriška Brda. She lived and grew up there. When she was six, she started school, but at the age of fifteen she left school, because she had to look after her parents who were old. She worked on a farm. All her brothers and sisters moved to Argentina. When she was twenty, she met my great-grandfather. They got married two years later. Their first son was born three years after their marriage and a daughter (my grandma) four years later. My great-grandmother never moved from Vipolže and she died there as an old woman. I knew her because she died this year at the age of 94.

Ema, 7. r