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Gimnazija "Zef Quš Marku"
- SKOPJE - INDIVIDUALNA PISMENA RABOTA Nastaven predmet: Angliski jazik Naslov na temata: Biografija na poznata ličnost "Balkan Slow Motion"
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 The life is a flowing river, a jubox which never stops playing it's songs...
The life is a balade, a wonderful old d-minor song, a wild black locust, one minuet... The life is like the song for your beloved, the provincial lady, a quince... The life is a storm and you are the panonian sailor. In the coming fall you are one new kid who may swin across the Danube River and paint his own portrait hoping that someone from above watches all and that... ...the life is a merry-go-round, that the life is a sea but... ...When you come absorbed in thought and you travel back in time, what would be the first thing that will come up on your mind and it's going to put a pleasant smile on your face? Is it going to be those nine candles on the birthday cake, your first love, the little wooden horse or some of those Balasevic's balades?... |
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Balasevic was always a righteous family... They didn't serve as a convict nor they wage war. In Novi Sad, as the church books can prove, on the street "Gladan" they've had a house on the sunny disposition since 1896. After wards they started a new house on the other side of the road, with 6 windows. The late bricklayer master Urosh was making some mulberry brandy and that's why the north wall is a little bit crooked. In that house now-a-days lives happilly the fifth generation... Once it as 18 Kamberova street... After the war it's 33 Jovan Cvijic street... This street is well known to all Balasevic fans because he had mentioned it in the songs. He didn't want to demolish it and build a new one so he renovated it, because he believes that good ghosts live there – in the Novi Sad's periphery, in that house built by the singer's grandfather (who wasn't Balasevic). He lives there all his life (only for one short period of time he lived in the center of Novi Sad with his parents). Djordje now lives with his wife Olivera and his children Jovana, Jelena and Aleksa. Djordje Balasevic – the famous singer, composer, writer and poet comes from an old family from Novi Sad. He is the first Balasevic. His family's last name until the war in 1941 was Balasev, so he still doesn't know if he has a Rusaian, Rumunian or some other origin. His grandfather was realy a great member of the Orthodox church so he went to the registrar and he added that –ic on the family name. He was afraid because his family could have been magyarized. But as the destiny can make fun of us, his father Jovan fell in love with Veronica Elvira Mathilda Dolenec – half hungarian, half croatian. |
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Djordje Balasevic's father Jovan Balasevic was born on August 1st, 1920 in Novi Sad. He studied in Novi Sad, he studied architecture on the university in Budapest, and geography in Novi Sad. In the first postwar days he was a director of the Provincial Construction Firm, and in 1954 he started working as a tourist worker and in that profession he got his full affirmation. He also had been working as a secretary in the Tourist Union of Vojvodina, and is the founder and president of the International Danube Regatta. Jovan Balasevic is the first representative of the Tourist Union of Yugoslavia and Hungary (1974-1981). The Hungarian government decorated him with an "order of working" with silver wreath for advancing the Yugoslav and Hungarian collaboration in the tourism. His mother Veronica Dolenec was a romantic type. She pointed him the way and Djordje read all the books she told him to. She was a real dreamer and a wonderful woman. Vera Balasevic had a job in the Fair as the director's secretary so she was doing those secretary things in his son's career. Veronica Dolenec was born in 1922 but died in 1980 from cancer when Djordje was in the army. His father died in Frankfurt on December 29th,1987. As Djordje says he could live longer but if he lived in these days he would have been dying from day to day living all this thing we live. He was certain that the Socialism and Communism is the structure that will rule the world. Djordje isn't the only child - he has a sister. Her name is Jasna. She has a beatiful daughter with black hair and green eyes. Every generation of his family had only one child so Djordje didn't have a lot of relatives except his mother's brother - his uncle Tomislav who died a little after Djordje was born. He thinks that it is not so bad because nobody without being invited could come to dinner on holidays. The problem was that all of the religious holidays were celebrated - the Orthodox and the Catolic so he couldn't be in two places at the same time when the holidays were on the same date. The most of the gifts he received from his grandfather Djuro Dolenec and his grandmother Ilona - they were really generous, but the other ones were not so bad - his Grandfather Balosh and his grandmother Milanka.  Their son Djordje All the people that had met Djordje Balasevic parents say that it is a great pleasure talking to them. His mother - Vera Balasevic used to say that she and her husband don't have a clue how did their son become so famous and succeeded that much.In the family they got used to Djordje's cheerfulness and to the easy way that he uses to express but they didn't think that it could become so dear to the others. At the time when Djordje was "breaking the ice of his career" his father was working in Budapest. His mother was going there on a visit or he was coming to Novi Sad. The only job that Jovan Balasevic had when he would met his wife or son was to hear and "absorb" all the news about his son's career. He had to read all the papers, watch the news and read and hear the new songs. Jovan Balasevic was saying that Djordje had lots of passion in his life and everything he was doing was easy because he loved and enjoyed doing it. Djordje was really successful. His father kept mentioning that the telephone discovered him and all those calls and that communicatios with those people who Djordje before knew only from TV. Those people actually were saying that it wasn't just their son's hobby, they said that it was a real talent. That was really new and unexpected for Djordje and his parents and it wasn't easy for them to get used to it. Djordje's mother was like his own secretary answering to all those calls and etc. Vera Balasevic once said that she was really angry because she had to find out from others that her son was going to be on TV because Djordje never watches his interviews and concerts. At the same time Vera and Jovan were really proud of thier son because even he was famous and successful he was still the same Djordje. Vera Balasevic also used to comment that her son never minded what was he going to wear and he didn't want to look smart. Jovan and Vera Balasevic always believed in their son. Even when he stopped going to classes because of some subjects like Maths, Physics and Chemistry. At that time they believed that he was going to figure out by his own that in his life he couldn't do and mind only the things he liked. Jovan Balasevic was saying that it was normal for young people and he was proud of that song where Djordje sang about being thrown out from school three times because by the metaphore he showed that he has grown up. When Djordje entered the college his father was sure that he was going to finish it...but he didn't. His father thought that his son just needed to get organized and finished the duty he had in the army. But any way Jovan Balasevic was really proud because his son refused to go on tours during the summer and that he was not giving concerts on New Year's Eve because he likes to celebrate, because it is his holiday. Djordje's parents noticed his talent in the primary school when he started writing poetry and in high school he published it. When they asked him who was he trying to imitate he got angry because nobody noticed his originality and he stopped writing. It took a long period of time while he started doing it again. Another surprise was the proclamation of "Racunajte na nas" (You can count on us) to a generation anthem. Balasevic's parents were so proud when their son was called to sing in a program that the president was going to watch in live. Djordje wasn't glad because he thought that the president Tito wasn't going to like his childish songs so he made new ones. Djordje was proud because he sang in front of the president and because he wanted to hear him.  The song "U razdeljak te ljubim" (I'm in love with the part in your hair) was already famous in their house for five years before it exploded in the ether. The song "Prva ljubav" (First love) was bassed on a true story - a love disappointment. Jovan Balasevic once mentioned that after a long confession about that love Djordje cut his connections with the females and he dedicated himself to the photography and the sport. That passed and the boy grew up. He didn't want to talk about his new girl in public so he was only writing it down in his song and keeping it all in his dreams. Jovan Balasevic wasn't really musical but he used to sing with his friends sometimes. But when Djordje became famous his prize went down and people started presenting him as Djordje Balasevic's father. He can't forget the feelings he had when a group of tourists he was giuding started singing "Neki novi klinci" (Some new kids). After that he was sure that his son really succeded. His wife -Vera is glad because his son always loved the poetry of Arsen Dedic and Djordje Marijanovic. She was glad because Djordje made his career without any protections and she was sure that their son is always going to be the same no matter what happens. Vera Balasevic was only sorry that she wasn't seeing her son as often as before. 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Djordje Balasevic was born early in the morning on May 11, 1953 in Novi Sad. His horoscope sign is Taurus-Gemini. Because he was born in that time of the day his mother wanted to give him the name Zoran. Balasevic's grandfather didn't like it because the name seemed to him like a horse one so he wanted the baby to be given the name Djoka. It wasn't the great solution so the family decided to give him the name Djordje although Balasevic is not very enthusiastic with it. Anyway he got used to it. His fans today call him Djole. The famous singer was educated with a variable success and he usually says that had been a period of negative affirmation of his character. He studied in the "Vuk Karadzic" and the "Ivan Gundulic" primary schools. Balasevic had a magnificent and exciting childhood. He lived with his family who was more than very tolerant, he never got a spanking although he deserved it many times especially in the high school. Balasevic grew up with all the family love in his grand-grandfather's house on Jovan Cvijic street, in the house where now-a-days grow his three children.They had a big yard, lots of green fruit in summer, hens and drakes which ran around. Maybe the most important was the Danube river - not as green now as it used to be, but the great love always stays. He grew up in the Salajka - the part of the city known for the local loafers. Djordje was the youngest guy so he enjoyed the protection acting to be a big guy, a big delinquent in the local corso. When he was 14 years old he was already sure enough that he enjoyed the company of the guitar than the local delinquent boys. That was when one older boy broke his nose in a fight. (Maybe that's why sometimes in singing he sounds like Toto Cotugno - as he says.) Luckily he decided to stop fighting and he ordained himself as a musican. The "fighting period" and those years were also known as the "football era" of Balasevic's life. Someones says that he was quite bad and someone says the opposite - that he was rather good, but if you ask him both sides were right. Djordje Balasevic went to the "Svetozar Markovic"high school. The good guy left the high school in the third grade and he took his exams as a part-time student. It's true that he had problems at school but not like the song. His biggest problem were the unexcused absences where the spring and summer were coming. He says: "I had a bike and as soon as the Sun appeared in May I would take my bike and go fishing on the Danube river. At that time I had a friend Joe Taylor, a gynecologist from Ghana, who ate lots of fish, maybe because of religious causes. As I couldn't take the fish home because everyone thought I was at school, I gave him the fish and he wrote me the excuses. I had excuses for 80 classes so when they called my dad at school just to make sure that they are really excused he said: ‘He's not ill, he's going to school!". So he was "thrown out" from school but anyway he finished the secondary school. When he was a young boy he felt that he's carrying some kind of song of his own in some new colour which nobody knows and which can't be explained to the others who know only the red, the blue, and the yellow colour. He came up to the idea to show that song to the others, to paint it so those others could see it and understand it. Balasevic was sure that no one has ever seen that song, he was sure that everyone is carrying deep down one song of his own and that nobody knows it. He had doubts about himself because it was unusual and strange to him that nobody before has figured it out nobody has ever recalled to those verses. When he was 17 years old while he was ill in bed the appearing of a fly in his room inspired him to write the song "Otkud muva" (Where did the fly come from). After that he started writing the poetic renditions and adaptations for the program "Muzicki klub" (Music club) and with a friend who knew to play a guitar he started playing music. After the secondary school, where he didn't go on the prom night just because he didn't want to put on a suit and look as smart as his dad, he started studying geography at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. He says: "I studied Geography when I was young but I never finished that college because I began to sing "U razdeljak te ljubim"(I'm in love with the part in your hair) and things like that. But who knows, maybe I finished the college because few exams were left to take: Marxism - which is gone for a long time, Self-managment Socialism - which is also gone, Geography of Yugoslavia - whish is also gone...Maybe I finished the college too, so it's left just for them to tell me but I have't checked the mail these days...You may talk to the teachers". In the year 1977 he joined the band "Zetva" (Harvest) and in September that year the band made the optional tango "U razdeljak te ljubim" (I'm in love with the part in your hair). The song became very famous and that's how Balasevic started his music career. |
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DJORDJE AND OLIVERA BALASEVIC AND THEIR CHILDREN  In these days he's very much in love with his wife Olivera - the love of his life andthe mother of their three children. They met each other thanks to Stevo Blondi - a friend who knew Olja all her life. They met at a dance. Balasevic says: "Then something strange happened: until that moment to all those girls I watched as they pass by, throwing back their heads and taking away the bangs from their brows, I was giving some characteristics and features so I could fall in love just to write a song. At the end it all was brought down to a disappointment because when I would have got to know them better I would have understood that I was thinking that they were much better than what they really were. However, I was more and more attracted to Olja as I was getting close to her. She came in my life quietly, uninvited, by herself and she stayed in my heart forever. She was a poor student from the students' dormitory, a member of the national team of gymnastics. Before the studies she was living in Zrenjanin with her mother, and in Novi Sad she was living from collecting food in the stores when "Podravka" was making degustations. Although the papers were taking us apart at least hundered times, we never have been separated for more than two days except if I have a concert far from Novi Sad. I feel in love in the most hard period of my life: my mother was very ill, the new record was supposed to come out and everybody thought that it was going to be a disaster, it was time for me to go to the army. With Olja I could spend hours in walking and just talking to each other. When I would have been gone somewhere without her every minute I was spending in thinking how much I miss her. The last summer before going to the army I went on a vacation on sea. I called her and just asked: ‘Olja tell me right now, will you or not?' She din't have time to answer and I got in my Golf forgot about the vacation and drove to Zrenjanin. From that day until now we have never been parted." ...But before getting married Djordje had to go to the army in the Zagreb's barracks "Marshal Josip Bros Tito" known as "Marshalka" which today's name is "Croatia". He wasn't having a great time there but it was more easy when he got the news that he had became a father on December 3,1980 (his daughter Jovana was born in Budapest). In May the next year he got married although Olja was only 26 years old. Djole says that he couldn't let her go and he mentions that his friend were all married at that time. The wedding of Djole and Olja was unofficial - Olja was wearing white overshoes and Djole was wearing jeans and a waistcoat. Soon Jelena - their second daughter was born in 1982, on August 6 in Novi Sad. Although he is a feminist he is proud that 5 years ago he had a son what ment that he doesn't have to buy all the time dolls and red dresses. Today Olivera (Savic) Balasevic is a teacher at the "Isidora Sekulic" high school in Novi Sad and is the "main menager" of her husband.She was born in Zrenjanin on April 29,1959. Now-a-days she's writing a book about the lives of their family in the past ten years. Their oldest child, the first daughter - Jovana Lola is a student at the Faculty of Acting in Novi Sad in the class of the professor Misha Janketic. Jelena Beba is a graduate student this year. Although she had a horrible accident but thanks to the doctors she's fine now. Balasevic says that those doctors are his heroes. She is a writer deep in her heart. Aleksa is 5 years old only and is very brave and fearless like his parents. They say that they are not going to force him to make a choice between the music and the sport.   |
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BALASEVIC'S CAREER  Music Career
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Man with the Moon in his eyes  To all those millions of people from former Yugoslavia who grew up in the past 20 years with the Balasevic's songs, all the Bosnian people, the Croatians, the Serbians and all the Jewish people, everyone who was touched from the brutality and the senseless of the war and the people who grieved together while hearing the song "Covjeka sa Mjesecinom u Ocima"(The Man with the Moon in his Eyes), they were offered with an amicable hand and sympathy.
The mentioned song is one of the most powerful, the mightiest song of all the military songs of Balasevic. He is the man who hit the people hearts with his own voice, who stepped on the border line of the front, who gathered the people in one place. With accepting the suggestion from UNHCR to give a concert for "the freedom of movement and reconciliation". UNHCR truly hoped that the universal message from Balasevic and his human condolences will open the doors for coming back for all the people who were expelled from their own native country. Mrs. Sadako Ogata - the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees named her UNHCR's Goodwill Ambassador for former Yugoslavia. The source of inspiration and energy for the people who want peace and the former Yugoslavia's reconciliation, the description of the absurdity of war and ethic hatred she found in the Balasevic's balads. She had been realy happy to welcome him as the Goodwill Ambassador of former Yugoslavia after meeting him. She was thrilled when he noticed that in February 1998 some 14,000 Bosnian people wept and sang with him during his five-hour concert. The big event was in Sarajevo and was sponsored by UNHCR.  |
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"Ziveti slobodno" TO LIVE FREELY  was the motto of the hundredth concert of Djordje Balasevic.
The concert was given on December 4,2000 in Belgrade in the National Theatre. It was dedicated to all the people who risked their lives in the fight for their ideals. Before the concert there were lines of people who waited to buy tickets and who wanted to see the concert. The hall of the Theater was too small for all the people that waited at the doors. at the beginning Balasevic said to his public, to his people this: "Tonight Belgrade is free, and I can't break the promice I gave. The only people I wanted to help were those young people from the 'Resistance' ". He was wearing a waistcoat - present from the miner in Lazarevo to who he dedicated the first songs on the concert. He started with "Devedeste" (The ninetiethes), "Treca smena" (The third shift), "Neki novi klinci" (Some new kids), "Luzer" (Looser) and "Provincijalka" (The provincial girl). Goran Sultanovic recited the song "Putuj Evropo" (Travel on, Europe) and Djole sang "Ne lomite mi bagrenje" (Don't crack my black locust trees) saying that it is the "song of good and bad no matter where he's singing it. The director of the concert was Mihajlo Vukobratovic. He says that when he said they could start "filming" Balasevic was still on his way to the Theatre. It was planed the legendary and unrepeatable concert to be recorded with five cameras but Balasevic didn't let any of them to record. The singer was actually right because he didn't want to be concentrated on things like cameras, celular phones ringing in the public etc.so the cameras were placed on the ground and on the back of the hall. The RTS gave him a term from 8:00 p.m. until the concert was over. It lasted for three hours but there were disturbances in the TV signals so the concert was not showed in Novi Sad. Vukobartovic is really sorry for that because Balasevic appealed to his family. As Mihajlo Vukokobratovic says, there were no rehearsals before the concert but actually it showed out that none of that was needed because Balasevic made it to be really unrepeatable and perfect. Balasevic insisted that everything was natural and simple so the band members intentionaly left their coats on the chairs, he wanted to tell everybody that everything is just a big circus and we all are parts of it. The broadcast of the concert was like a football match in live -no script and no rehearsals and only the end was known. Those who saw the concert knew that it wasn't important to "catch all the notes that were coming out" of the drums or the guitars, it was important to notice the "fluid" between Djordje and the public. Balasevic made it happen, he joined the people who were arrested and mistreated all those years under the regime of Milosevic and he called them Children from Heaven. Srdjan Milivojevic - the leader of the "Resistance" said that this was a concert dedicated to the poets who overthrew the last dictator on the Balkanian Peninsula and even in Europe. He also said that the "Resistance" must exist so Milosevic won't happen again. Balasevic kept his promise and he gave the first concert after the liberation of Yugoslavia, after the "kocking down" of Mr. Slobodan Milosevic. He even sang the song "Gedo gluperdo" (Gedo the fool) for which was said a long time ago in one Serbian radio station that is "associating". |
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A Fighter against the wars Once Balasevic said that all his concerts at the time being have a political background because for the past 20 years he's fighting against the wars. His opinion is that these things that happen today could only have been changed about 10 or at least a year ago. Balasevic said that the traditional New Year's concert isn't going to be given because he doesn't want to sing while Belgrade is terorised. He said that he's going to sing when Serbia is free because it's not moral to give a concert and take people's money during a war and he didn't want to sing to the people while they are depressed. Balasevic also refused to give humanitarian concerts because the money would have been spent wrong. Here's what he says about the concerts in Kosovo: "I never have given concerts in Kosovo, and I think I won't do it, because the Albanians didn't call me and also the Serbians. I'm not a Yugonostalgic. Somebody may say that I am a patriot. I feel homesick but for the plannet Earth -that's my home.You remember my concerts in Slovenia when all the people from Zagreb and Dubrovnik and many stage wolves from the former YU scenes and they all cried on my songs, and that's my biggest credit. Everyone in these wars lost a city and I lost them all, but slowly I'm getting them back because some new kids live their and they love my songs no matter they can't see me on TV or hear me on radio." |
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"The crazy Balasevic's fans" - About us About the wild heart with the eternal tam-tam resistance.... The Internet site of this "crazy" group of Djole'sfans is dedicated to the one and only Djordje Balasevic. When you are connected to Internet and you visit this site, on one page you can read this: And everything started by pure chance, although chances don't exist, one winter, one January night at the end of one century, when several enthusiasts met in this virtual world, overcoming the untranslatable deeps and collecting an ivy stalk of the normaly from that wall of tall, the tallest: leaving far behind them the Balkanian tribe fires of division. A group of people gathered, those people that in every Internet search type the keyword: Balasevic. That keyword was the code that gave to the crazy ones the chance to recognize each other, those who in this time-between sense however stayed on the strong shores outside the disastrous sources of the Ninetiethes. The crazy Balasevic's fans aren't a politic organization, aren't offering a program, aren't going to be candidated on some elections and they don't have territorial pretensions. Our territory is the Plannet, all those boulevards of the word that remember the music of our steps, from Toronto to Sidney. We're not talking only about the regular Djordje Balasevic's fans just like the song of the great Masters who aren't talking only about music. We're taking about the special mental resistance of those who systematicaly destroyed all the existing values in the past years. Those who started and those who give this presentation, do this for their own pleasure without any orders even without Djordje Balasevic's, they are working together with him and his friends. We are only a public that exists only during the show of the Circus that is leaving, it's clear for you... The crazy ones are generally the same generation with the first Djole's verses; Some new kids that grew old as those songs were getting older. Sharp sighted with the undisturbed senses. To become a part of the crazy world, that actually anthropologicaly is different from the worldthat we voluntary ran away from, no formalities are needed. The craziness is simply lived. That isn't a head letter... Either we are or we aren't? If you have noticed the difference - congratulations, you're on the right way. Why and what the crazy ones are doing? That's why we are those crazy ones that were silent , for years far and ashamed from the Insanity. Or maybe the "crazy ones" in the eyes of those who simply don't understand this? However by the way - on their own... The craziness simply can't stop existing and mustn't because that is maybe of the last material proofs that not everything is gone to hell... And that's why this heart will countinue beating in this tam-tam resistance, while we exist... Good night, Normals... I know that you're there.  |
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The reason for the visit was of the action of this group - The letter around the world in 80 days. The action of the crazy ones started two years ago and recently it was finished with happy ending. The letter travelled the word, from hand to hand and it came to Novi Sad and it was framed. On November 3 the crazy Balasevic's fans decided to give him the letter. They visited him in Novi Sad on the 33 Jovan Cvijic Street The letter around the world It was an ordinary piece of paper that travelled the world thanks to the members of the group. Everyone of them wrote something-couple of words on that piece of paper and sent it to the next member. They put on the paper the postage stamps, the dates, the places and their e-mail addresses. The letter travelled through Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Turkey, Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and it finally came to Yugoslavia. Now the letter is in Novi Sad, in Djordje's atelier. This was one of the greatest and longest action of this special group of people. Also this was one of the hardest but not because they had to be responsible for the letter, because they had to be careful not to stain the written with the tears from their eyes. |
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This is the name of the club that was founded in the middle of January 1997 at the Faculty of the Tehnical Sciences in Novi Sad. The club is an integral part of the Student organization "Student union". The club has 100 members - students and professors from the Novi Sad's University that live with Djole's songs for 20 years. Since this club was founded the members gather every other Tuesday at the amphitheatre of the Technical Faculty. |
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The idea was to make place where the people that have the same emotions can meet, talk and etc. on this virtual pages. The people that helped making this magazine knew that the time when they lived like "Hey, Hay so why do we care...", the songs and the emotions got harder... The poetry of the Master of Novi Sad started living in a separated world. You get the idea that it stopped being just good music and it all became a style of living and a way for resistings. The author of this e-magazine didn't want to show us the last oases of the Yugoslovenian nostalgia but to get us back in the world of minuet and waltz on an objective, Balasevic's way, to get us back in one of Those lives no matter what consequences it will show on our mental and emotional structure... |
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