By Jasmina Tesanovic & Mirso Bajramovic
Once upon a time there lived a woman i hated. I hated her because she looked exotic and horrible and beautiful at the same time. I hated her because I didn’t understand her . I hated her because I feared her. Finally I hated her because we shared the same man and name. This is her. I see her eyes looking at me through the times and spaces, sideways. We used to be friends, then we became bitter enemies, then we shared besides the same man and name the same sickness. She died, I survived. I inherited her clothes her children, her purse. I opened it trembling. She had an earring inside, a little bit of money and my photo. I looked at my photo with her eyes. Now dead . I violently started hating myself because I was exotic and ugly and beautiful and because we shared the same man and name and now the same body too. She was gone but I was wearing her eyes she hid in her purse. That was our matrimony.
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Jasmina Tesanovic was born on 7th March 1954 in Belgrade. She went to the English primary school, “The International Port Said School” in Cairo, Egypt. She graduated with G.C.E.’s in the “International School of Milan” in Milan, Italy. More...
Mirso Bajramovic was born in Sarajevo on August 22, 1954. He received his artistic education at the University of Sarajevo, where he attended architecture-classes from 1973 until 1977. His career as an artist started in Dubrovnik, where he live from 1982 until his departure to The Netherlands, in 1986. More...