Tusa Tavi was my great aunt (the sister of my grandfather).
She had always been a very sociable person.
She was sharing the house with my grandparents in Lugoj.
They were a team.
We used to say that she was in charge of the department of foreign affairs because she always had numerous friends and maintained good relations with all neighbors. She enjoyed doing this and considered it as a serious job.
She was a very nice person who knew how to impose her point of view in a subtle way without ofending people.
When I was in middleschool and highschool she tried to teach me how to cook
and later how to be a woman. She did not succced a hunderd procent, but she tried hard.
She was always there whenever Mihai and I needed her since I can remember until I left home. Together with my gradparents she made our summer vacations
(+ every weekend when we could get away
from home and catch a train to Lugoj) unforgetable.
Now almost every day I dream I am at Lugoj with Tusa Tavi and
my grandparents and that Mihai and I are children again who can afford to
swim all day in summer and try to scare people with water mellons hanged from
trees.
My childhood would be incomplete without her, without her optimism and the stories she used to tell us almost every night.