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Her sister, Tochka, was with our family to help with the household. They took her from Tarnovo and took her with them to Plovdiv. Grandpa Slaveykov's brother, Panayot, was a poor man, and Grandpa Slaveykov wanted to help his children study. Tochka stayed with them the longest. My grandmother treated her like a servant and constantly grumbled at my grandfather for taking her brother's children home. At one time, three of them - Tochka, Mariyka and Racho - were with them. My grandmother didn't want them. Tochka told her sister that on a very cold winter day (in Plovdiv), Pencho went out in the morning and didn't return home all day. His brother Ivan had told him that the day was very cold, not to go out. He went to Maritsa on skates and only came back in the evening. He got up at night and fell. That's when his illness began. "I remember him, I was a year-old child, how my sister and the maid dragged him through the yard, he leaned on their shoulders, paralyzed. This must have been in 1884, when he later told how much they had treated him. - They burned me, they hanged me, they did everything to me! So he sat paralyzed in the attic of the old house. I was a 6-year-old child. He gave me a bunch of grapes. "Don't let mom see you!" Grandma Slaveykovitsa asked. I put my hand behind my back and as soon as she approached, I dropped the grapes in the grass." He also told an incident, somewhere in the west: