This was last case. We were eating breakfast, they had to travel on Monday, it was Sunday, they all had to travel to Kosovo on Monday. And now, during that morning, we closed all [business]: where we were, who, and the minutes that they took with them to Kosovo, the minutes taken in each reconciliation case – where did we go, who spoke, what was said? They took these with them, they asked, we gave [these] to them and they took these.
He says, “We have,” says Anton Çetta, “another case.” They say, “Where, who called you? We thought that we had done, we have no record anywhere.” “No,” he said, “I know.” “Professor, where do you want us to go?” He stood up, said, “We will go to Besim’s.”I was married at the time, I believe I had been married for one year. And he stood up and said, “We will go to Besim’s, because there too we must reconcile someone.” I said, “With whom do you want me to reconcile?” He said, “With your wife,” he said, “thirty days up and down, she has the right to kick you out of the house.” He said, “You too now go to Kosovo with them!” He said, “We are coming to reconcile you with your wife because this work must be completed as well.” I said, “Ok,” I said, “Come to my place for dinner tonight.” He said, “Yes, definitely.” And that was it, they all came to my place for dinner in the evening, my house was, then I lived in Queens. I also had family, my father, brothers, mother, we lived all together.
My house was in Queens and we went there for dinner, and when he came in he told my wife, “Hana, we came to reconcile you with your husband because tomorrow I have to go to Kosovo, so I reconcile even you two.” She says, “But we do not have any problem.” He says, “Eh, thirty days, don’t I know what will you say to him when we are gone? You will say, ‘Thug, you took the streets, you went up and down, and left me alone.’”
The audio interview section of Besim Malota telling the story that you just read can be found here.