“My sweet boy, my beloved child, my good boy, I would have liked to be keeping you in my arms till I die, to have you near me from the moment you were born, to warm your sensitive heart with my love and affection, but fate was really hard to me and the morals of our country cruel and inhumane. I gave your life from my life and flesh from my flesh, but I lost you, my child, right from the moment you were born, and only great unspoken and incurable pain was left to me. Now that you are a man, I can open my heart to you.”

“Thirty years ago, a very young girl, almost a child in mind, soul and body, left her village and came to the jungle called Athens. She wanted to work to make a dowry for herself, to make a better living than in the village, where, in those years, life was very poor and difficult. Because of her young age and innocence, she could not understand the dangers around her. She came to Athens and was hired by a family as a housemaid. She was very unhappy, she missed her family, cried a lot, but she kept her work patiently and time went by.