BUSINESS LADY OF OUR VILLAGE

KarabakhOpen
28-08-2007 09:54:09

"I try to ignore gossipers because I work to grow up my children. My
life’s difficult but this is the reality. I had no other way out. Now
my café’s the most famous and popular place in the village. Everyone
calls it Karine’s."

The people who don’t know Karine cannot believe this lovely girl
already has two children. She was very young and in her dreams life
was easy and beautiful when she fell in love and left with her prince
far away. But soon Karine got disappointed and had to come back
home with two children. Her family did not accept her, only the old
grandmother who lived alone and was happy to get a family. Soon the
men of the village learned about the young woman with two children
and no husband. And it began. Some stood at her house for hours to
say a couple of words which they thought were so wise.

"Nobody dated me and nobody gave me flowers but everyone asked to come
in for a cup of coffee. I wondered if there’s not a single café around
and why everyone wanted to come in. In fact, there was no café around,
and I thought why I could open a café in our yard."

It turned out that people in Karabakh cannot do without
caffeine. Karine could not imagine it would be so difficult. The
business is so small but she had to work very hard. She had to study
the laws, learn accounting, be the barmen and the waitress at the
same time. People gossiped, nevertheless, Café Karine is the only
place where one can go, have a cup and coffee and have a chat.

Karine has a dream. "I want to get an education, find a good and
interesting job. For my babies to be happy, grow without problems,
and become decent people."

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