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Fabijan Šovagović

Jan 4, 1932 - Jan 1, 2001(69)

Why did Fabijan never like mathematics?

When my grandmother accompanied me to school, she would wrap fatty bread, made from pork fat, in newspaper, and then she would use the fat from the fatty bread on notebooks and books.

After the death of Fabijan's father and mother, his uncle took care of him and his siblings as his own children. Living in Slavonia, wounded by the Second World War, was difficult, but with hard work and effort it was somehow possible. He managed to send the youngest, Fabijan, to school.

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"In addition to all the poverty during the war, my uncle fulfilled the wish of my mother and father to send me to school, and there is also the logic that as the youngest, I was weak for the field, because there were older ones who were a little stronger for agricultural work - war and post-war. Even then, my uncle's son could lift a sack of fifty kilograms of grain on his back, but where would I do that? So I looked after the pigs until noon, if school was in the afternoon. If the school was the other way around, then instead of pigs I went after cows, I had Šara, Milka and two heifers on average, because my brother Franja went after the ones I left for school.

When my grandmother would accompany me to school, she would wrap fatty bread, made from pork fat, in a newspaper (Hrvatski list in Osijek, or Glas Slavonije pošelje), and then she would push the fat from the fatty bread through the newspaper onto notebooks and books. A mathematics professor who once did not even want to look at his homework so as not to get dirty, even though I was hauling a bucket of seven liters of milk to Osijek for his children. He also had four children, so I am still a bad mathematician.

My brother envied me even though he knew it wasn't easy because Gutman's trains left at five in the morning and he sometimes had to get up at three at such a young age to mow the meadow and grain in Otok. It is the most beautiful meadow in Ladimirevci. We have already started courting our cows there. That same brother of the forty-fourth year, at a little over fifteen years old, was recruited as Pavelić's last regular recruitment, although that country was not regular, we found that out later," wrote the actor.

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