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I am lonely and miss talks with neighbours

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I am lonely and miss talks with neighbours
Galina Amirkhanyan
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I’m 84 years old. For the last fifteen years, I've been living alone in a shack in a village in Armenia without water and electricity. For my basic needs, I’m forced to carry buckets of water and chop wood to heat the shack.

I got this woodshed from my elderly neighbours. For five years I’ve been taking care of them and they let me live in their garden shack.

When I first came here, there were only mice, nothing else. I don’t even have any property documents or the residence registration. That’s why I don’t receive any allowance from the state.