Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Martisor


Mărțișor is the old folk name for March in the Romanian language, and literally means "little March".


When my nephew was a little boy, he went with his father to buy Martisor for all the girls and women he knew. When they got close to a stand, my nephew chose the Martisor for me. ‘But it’s golden, so I don’t think she will like it’, his father said. ‘No, she likes it’, replied my nephew.

And so I did. And I have ever since. It seems to me to be the everlasting Martisor from him.

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