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"This is one of only two photos that I have of my mother. Her name was Elisaveta. She raised the four of us, my three brothers and me, as an itinerant gypsy musician in the X region of Bulgaria. I'm not sure were this picture was taken, probably in a photo studio in Sofia, Bulgaria."
Gigi Interview, Salut Les Copains, 1965
"I kept this photo with me in the envelope my mother handed it to me in, but to be honest, since as a child I was trying desperately to fit into a foreign country and always felt like such an outsider - this picture really, I'm not sure how to say it... it disgusted me."
Gigi Interview, Salut Les Copains, 1965