Clara Casey and got a job in the heart clinic. Ania was the youngest of her family. She could not remember her father because she had been only three when he was killed in an accident. It was a terrible day when poor Pawel reversed his new lorry which was his pride and joy into a deep quarry. He had made only the first payment on this truck, which was going to change their finances. Papa would work all the hours that God sent and the family would be wealthy in their happy home. His daughters would marry men of substance in the area and his son, Józef, would join him in the business. Their name would be known all over the countryside as people who could be relied on. Ania heard all this later. Because the story was so often told in her family, she sometimes believed that she remembered that day, the day they brought the news home that Papa was dead and the lorry had not been paid for. Two pieces of almost equally bad news, the way it was told. So there was no wonderful family home. There was her poor mother, her mamusia, who worked all the hours in the day to put food on the table.
