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the flood

Among the many disturbing news and touching stories about current devastating flooding in Northern Croatia, touch to the heart is the report of one rescue worker: just before he lifted an old man into the boat (water was already around five feet high), the man kissed his cow and told her that they will never see each other again.

Just imagine a small farm where a single cow is the most essential part of the household. Cow gives milk used for the variety of foods. Cow gives manure used as the fertilizer in the field and vegetable garden. Cow is pulling a wooden wagon, the only vehicle in the household; just better standing families in the village can afford an ox for the job. Cow is pulling a plow to turn the soil in the field, there’s no an ox or a horse for the job. Cow will bear a calf to be sold - the household is economically pretty independent but some things you have to buy. Listen, I have not made this up, those are my childhood memories of my uncle’s (my father’s oldest brother) household in a small village in Northern Croatia.

And now imagine flood taking everything, including the cow, from an old man.

 

old man and cow

 

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