THE SOURED IDYLL

1. THE SOURED IDYLL

The following event took place in Detroit. One day I

encountered an acquaintance of mine at the hotel where I

was staying. Her name was Kate and I hadn’t heard

anything about the why she “had disappeared” from

Macedonia. I knew that she had moved away but I didn’t

know where, in spite of my numerous contacts and

inquiries of our emigrants on all continents. Our meeting

was unexpected and exciting. It was a surprise for both of

us. She came from a mixed family, from the southern part

of Macedonia. Although she was married, she was as

beautiful and charming as she used to be in her youth.

She was a brunette, with long hair, prominent cheeks and

attractive brown eyes.

Word by word, starting from her youth and ending with

her moving abroad and marrying Atanas K., she told me

all about her rise and fall, living and working abroad. After

her arrival in the USA, she had some problems adapting

to her husband. She had met him in Macedonia and after

a very short time she married him. However, she

managed to overcome her nostalgia for Macedonia and

succeeded in building her career as a successful

businesswoman. She also told me that she fell in love

SLAVE KATIN

with her husband, a Macedonian emigrant in Detroit. Such

a love obsession could hardly ever be experienced she

said. In regard to her storytelling, I asked Kate to be

honest and open so that it would be interesting to my

readers.

She agreed. At first she was uncomfortable but later she

became more relaxed. She started with her life with

Atanas by saying that it was a successful life in the

beginning with many exciting experiences. They could

afford such a lifestyle because he had a good income. He

didn’t hesitate to fulfill all the wishes of his beloved wife.

Whatever she wanted, he gave her. However, their idyllic

life only lasted for the first years of their marriage. She

was expecting their first child. Their yearning to start a

real family was coming true and the dreams she had as a

girl were also coming true. They were endlessly happy.

But one day their hopes fell like a house of cards.

The medical test results showed that she was not

pregnant and that she could never have children. It also

showed that Atanas was not at fault. This fact caused

them both to feel sad and started to erode their idyllic life.

Nevertheless, as time went by their mutual wound healed

as if they had forgotten their sorrow. This didn’t have a

significant impact on their love. On the contrary, their

sexual life increased in intensity. Besides that, her sexual

appetite increased and she couldn’t satisfy her desire for

sexual games. Atanas enjoyed satisfying her desires in

the beginning, but he became weaker partly due to his

age but mainly because of the sexual temperament of his

woman. He didn’t try to find fault with Kate, but with

himself. It was then that she started looking for satisfaction from other men. Atanas pretended that he didn’t

see what was going on and resigned himself to the fact

that he could only keep his wife by his side by doing so.

When she spoke about the sexual qualities of her

beloved and respected husband, Kate also added that

another Macedonian citizen

in Detroit as a businessman, attracted her the most of all

other Macedonians through his manhood, elegance,

storytelling spirit and patriotic dedication, even during the

first night of his stay. Their love affair burst into flame

those few days he stayed in Detroit.

This euphoria of love continued with great intensity

even after he had returned to Macedonia. Soon after that,

Kate told Atanas that she felt a great nostalgia for

Macedonia and needed to visit her parents and friends,

and asked him to let her go. Being careful not to hurt her,

he consented, expressing regret that he couldn’t join her

due to his business commitments. Then she started

kissing and caressing him, promising that she would also

visit his relatives and, if possible, she would try to find him

business partners from Macedonia. She had never been

so happy before. She felt as if she was going to

Macedonia for the first time.

Before traveling to her homeland, Kate contacted Me. She informed him of

her intention to go to Macedonia in order to continue their

sweet love affair there as well. She asked him to make

reservations at the hotels where they would stay and to

prepare himself for their new “Olympic meeting”. Kate was

always passionate in bed and thought that her way of

making love was memorable. “Good sex charges the

batteries,” Kate told her friend, in Skopje, over the phone.

The preparations for her journey took a long time.

One day Kate landed at the Skopje airport where

during his stay in Detroit as nobody else had done. He

arranged her accommodation in a luxurious hotel in

take her to Bitola, Ohrid and Dojran where they would

stay in the best hotels in order to experience to the

maximum what could not be experienced anywhere else.

In other words, to produce such “a documentary” about

their love affair that it would be worth winning the most

prestigious Hollywood award.

Their meeting at the airport was also “hot”. They

went to a hotel room to take a rest and to mark the start of

their love life in Macedonia. It was understood that LjupþR

wished her a warm welcome in his style and deliberate

manner. Strangely enough she was surprised. Here,

being on his turf, he was a better lover, by just a shade,

than he had been in Detroit. While she was recollecting that a sexual life was a

vital category in which there were no rules. According to

Kate, sexual life was something that lovers created

together regardless of the tradition and understanding

about sex in the country.

Kate also told me about the case of her friend,

whose husband simply weakened sexually after two years

and therefore couldn’t satisfy “his domestic obligations”.

Therefore she was forced to look for satisfaction from

another man. Her lover was also from Macedonia, as was

more intense in Macedonia.

The next day of her stay in Macedonia Kate and

wonderful moments of happiness they felt in their search

for it all over the Balkans and in America. Aware that

nothing happens by itself and that happiness and

attraction should be looked for and enjoyed to the fullest

the elixir of youth and passion.

It is not purely by chance that love knows no limits,

and that the love partners are simply infatuated. That was

Dojran when they were feeling “on top of the world”, they

went out of the room and to their surprise saw the brother

of Atanas who was staying in the next room with his wife.

Atanas’s brother lived in Macedonia but at that time he

and his wife were staying at the same hotel. Kate and

surprised. In a word, they were awestruck by that

unexpected and chance encounter. And, as in a movie,

they shook hands and disappeared as if they had never

met. Their encounter was never revealed to Atanas, but

the family scar remained forever.