
A Romanian first-person testimonial in which the speaker recounts growing up with an authoritarian, alcoholic father who regularly returned home drunk, instilling fear. The speaker describes hiding or pretending to sleep to avoid confrontations, witnessing severe domestic violence (threats to throw the mother from their third-floor apartment and threats with a knife), and concludes by vowing to never repeat the father's abusive behavior — not to drink like him, not to be jealous, and not to beat his wife.










