Teuta comes to “See you in Court” to confront her uncle’s son, Tetemi. Before she gets into a conflict with him, she tells her painful story in the “Albanian Sunday” column on Tv Klan. It was born from a relationship that was never crowned with celebration. My father was married to another woman who lived in Ballsh, but he lived in Tirana with her mother.
Teuta: My mother was hospitalized, my father was the head nurse at the sanatorium.
Ardit Gjebrea: Did they fall in love there in the hospital?
Teuta: In the hospital and he took her home. Without having the celebration, I was born.
Eni Çobani: But in the meantime, my father was married, right?
Ardit Gjebrea: In which house did he take her, did he have two daughters-in-law?
Teuta: No, he had left her.
Ardit Gjebrea: Ah, was he divorced? Had her father divorced her?
Eni Çobani: Now, where did her first wife live?
Teuta: Her first wife was from a village in Ballsh.
Eni Çobani: Yes, where did she live at that time?
Teuta: In Ballsh. They were separated.
At the age of three after her birth, her father was imprisoned for agitation and propaganda by the dictatorship regime and Teuta does not remember him. Her uncles decided to marry her mother, who found three children in the new family.
Her stepfather, who had a crush on Teuta, insisted on marrying her to one of his sons. Despite her resistance, this marriage took place and Teuta has a child with him. But after an argument with her husband, she ran away from home with the son she had given birth to, and he killed her mother, who was her stepmother and mother-in-law.
Teuta: When my father went to prison, my uncle took my mother and married her off. I grew up with my uncle, with my aunt.
Ardit Gjebrea: Why did my father go to prison?
Teuta: For political agitation and propaganda, during the time of Enver. When I was 3 years old, my uncle took my mother away because they were afraid at that time…
Ardit Gjebrea: So, you don’t remember your father?
Ardit Gjebrea: Until you were 3 years old, you lived with your father and mother?
Teuta: Yes, until you were 3 years old, then when my father went to prison, my uncle took my mother and me off, I grew up with my uncle, with my aunt and my uncle married her off in Molisht, Berat.
Ardit Gjebrea: My mother got married again.
Teuta: She got married. There she had three children, two boys and a girl. My mother’s husband respected me and loved me very much, he kept me for the foundling son.
Ardit Gjebrea: Why, did they want to marry you?
Eni Çobani: My mother’s second husband had three children and wanted to marry her to one of them.
Ardit Gjebrea: Ah, because with the foundling son, I made the connection.
Teuta: We were in a family, we grew up as sister and brother.
Ardit Gjebrea: You lived in the same house and you conceived of him as a brother there because you grew up together.
Teuta: Yes. However, everything ended, I gave birth to my son, I have ’79.
Ardit Gjebrea: What do you mean “everything ended”?
Teuta: I got married, he kept me. He didn’t throw me out, I’ll keep you for myself, said my mother’s husband. Do you understand me?
Ardit Gjebrea: I understand, but who did you have the son with?
Teuta: With his son, he kept me at home for his son.
Ardit Gjebrea: I understand, but even though you said that I wouldn’t have him with him…
Teuta: He wouldn’t let you in the house, he said. Neither my uncle nor my aunt would accept me. When I left, I ran away, taking the son with me…
Teuta: Yes, yes. I went to my father’s people and he cut off my mother’s head. Long story.
Ardit Gjebrea: How did he cut off his head?
Teuta: He cut it off because I ran away because the son ran away, you sharpened it.
Ardit Gjebrea: Did he cut it off figuratively or did he kill him?
Teuta’s ex-husband was sentenced to 25 years in prison, but he was released after serving 12 years. The son has a relationship with her, while Teuta has no contact. She says that the day she left, she also left him a letter.
“I left a letter on his desk: ‘Don’t call me.’”