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Kmiet is the Bulgarian word for Mayor and
even though we have been on good terms with the mayor who presides over the
village my family owns a house in, we often refer to him as Mayor/Kmiet more
than his given name. That being the case I will refer to him as Kmiet. We have
known Kmiet for several years already since our six years of owning our house
in Bulgaria. We have spent many a times having dinner, BBQs, and drinks in both
formal and non-formal occasions but ever since the death of his beloved wife
and the diagnosis of his cancer, he has become a lonely man, who even though he
protests to invitations to dinner, he always happily accepts and can spend
hours talking about times of the past as well as his sons and grandchildren.
That is enough for his brief introduction however, I will talk about and
elaborate on Kmiet and his life in the later, but for now I will discuss the
night my father and I spent at his party celebrating his 78th birthday.