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communists: let the capitalists pay for our prosperity. There was
a lot of capital on the market, and banker geniuses jumped at
the chance, black or white. The relative prosperity was
disturbed by the explosion of gasoline prices in 1973, which
then slowly reshaped everything. But the 1970s were livable,
especially if one forgot about the national identity: there was
industry and agriculture, home farming perfected in one's
backyard. Perhaps this is the decade when the new "socialist
type of man" who is compromising, individualistic, unable to do
anything for the country, emerged on a mass scale out of
necessity. What else could they have done after 1956 and 1968?
After leaving grammar school, Kati worked in a laboratory for a
while, and on her way to work she took a bus on the
Népköztársaság road (today Andrássy út), and I, if I could, went
there by car to see if I could get some "spiritual ammunition"
until the meeting in the evening. But he changed jobs and
continued in his mother's small tailoring workshop, because
with a business one could be independent, but at the same time
it became a suspicious entrepreneur in the eyes of many. We
were together for four years, and I might have lived my easy
life as a young teacher even longer if Kati hadn't told me that
she was expecting a child. At that time, the ugly definition:
protection against child blessing, was rudimentary, but it
already existed. Although it always existed, it was just difficult
to apply in all circumstances... We discussed it, despite the fact
that we had no prospect of an apartment and none of our friends
were married yet. So, we had no role models, except for my
sisters, but they were a generation older. We decided to keep
the child. In my comfortable little life, I was worried about how
I would present the developments to her father that his daughter
was getting married but was already pregnant. A little. It was a
different age and in old-fashioned families, this may have
entailed certain dangers in those days. My worries were
unnecessary. I went to Székesfehérvár with his father on some
matter, and I mentioned that Kati was pregnant, but I was

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