Lee, Nadya (done)

[NADYA LEE]

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[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, width: 400px; height: 380px; background-image:URL(http://i800.photobucket.com/albums/yy284/brooklynlolli/x0r3w0.png); border-left: 10px solid #1e1e1e; border-right: 10px solid #1e1e1e;] NADYA LEE NADYA LEE | 23| LOCAL | FORTUNE TELLER ------------------------------------------------- WELCOME, TAKE A SEAT. START OFF WITH YOUR NAME, HOW OLD ARE YOU? I go by the name of Nadya Lee. My people don't typically have middle names.I am twenty three years of age. I know that this might sound a bit weird, but has anyone ever told you that you have a mesmerizing aura? No? Well, it's amazing! Like nothing I've ever seen before....a soft lavender with bold streaks of violet. You really must visit my ofisa sometime, I'd love to do a reading for you. ------------------------------------------------- AWESOME. ARE YOU A LOCAL? *laughs softly* Oh, I'm sorry. I mean no harm. I'm not laughing at you. It's just that the idea of a Roma being considered a local is pretty amusing. My people are nomadic by nature, we never stay in one place longer than necessary. Anywhere you imagine within North America we've probably lived there at some point or another. Originally though I think my family might have migrated here from either Western or Central Russia. ------------------------------------------------- NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED. GOT A BIG FAMILY? I'M AN ONLY CHILD. By the ga...I mean American standards yes my family would probably be considered huge, but for our community it's average sized. Believe it or not we have a family of twelve. In addition to my parents, I have four sisters and five brothers. I am the third born child behind my brother Marko whose 27 and my sister Mirela whose 25. Then after us comes my little sister Nuri two sets of twins; Jaelle & Stefan, Mala & Nicolae. The babies of my family are my two little brothers Mihai and Tamas. I wasn't particularly close to either of my parents growing up as most of our interactions revolved around learning how to bring in an income for my family. However, I have always been extremely close to my sisters as I spent the bulk of my time with them shopping, cooking, and working. I've always held the most respect for Marko and Mirela who sacrificed their childhood to help take care of us. Nuri has always marched to the beat of her own drum and although I've never told her so I really am a bit envious of how individuality and independence yet worried at the same time. Jaelle and Stefan shared the womb at the same time and that seems to be where their similarities end, they are polar opposites and I always found myself playing the role of arbitrator. For every bit as different and distant as Jaelle & Stefan are Mala & Nicolae are extremely close. They share alot of similarities and whereas alot of us pretend to be psychic we've always thought that Mala & Nicolae might actually be. Or at least they have that creepy twin link thing. Mihai is something of a loner which in our family is a bit unusual. He is only truly close to the baby of the family Tamas. Tamas is the heart of us all. Despite the conniving con artist he is to the rest of the world, we all know him as a total sweetheart. ------------------------------------------------- GO FIGURE. DO YOU THINK YOUR FAMILY SHAPE WHO YOU ARE AS A PERSON? It would be impossible for them not to. As a child I wasn't allowed to play with non gypsy children or befriend them leaving my only influence to be that of my family and the Rom friends that I met during our travels. With my parents being traditionalists, alot of my peoples' traditions have shaped the person that I am. Because my culture has always placed a great deal of emphasis on hygiene, to those who don't understand my beliefs or customs, I can come off as being obsessive compulsive at times. The nomadic lifestyle of my family tends to make not just myself but all of us somewhat adverse to being tied down in any sense. The freedom to come and go as I please is a luxury that I don't easily take for granted. An additional byproduct of our seemingly carefree lifestyle is that it has allowed me to become quite comfortable with change. I can be doing a tarrot reading in San Fransisco today and a palm reading in Washington state a few days later. Although some would also say that with that comes a certain reluctance to commit. From the moment I could talk I began learning the ancient art of divining the future in order to eventually be able to earn an income for my family. Although some may not think of what I do as a job, I believe myself to have a very strong work ethic. As with any normal girl I had chores, some of which included looking after my younger siblings, instilling in me a sense of responsibility. Being that my way of life is maintained by keeping customers happy and returning, I suppose that you can say that I'm something of a people pleaser. Although I understand the purpose of having limited contact with non gypsies, I've found that when forced to be in a social setting with them, I get rather uncomfortable. Living on the outskirts of society tends to make it difficult for me when I actually make the effort to fit in. ------------------------------------------------- THATS DEEP, MAN. YOU SEEM PRETTY INTERESTING, YOU MUST HAVE AN INTERESTING BACK STORY, HM? I am the third born to Besnik and Drina Lee. My family is from a tribe of Roma known as the Ruska. As with most marriages in my culture, my parents' marriage was arranged through their fathers. My mother was only 15 when she wed my father and my father was 16 at the time. She often said that she counts herself lucky as she was at least familiar with her husband before the marriage. It seemed such a simple thing, but apparently alot of her friends ended up marrying complete strangers. After marrying my father she left her family and moved in with father's family. While both of my parents were indeed working when they married, most of my mother's earnings had gone to her family leaving her with very little to use to help build her life with her new husband. The first few years were rather rough on them and they found themselves being forced to depend on his parents to provide for them. Within the first year of their union my parents were blessed with my oldest brother Marko. After Marko was born my mother worked along side her mother in law up until she got pregnant with Mirela. From that moment on it seemed that every couple of years my mom got pregnant. Due to the rapid expansion of our family, my mother began to start us younger and younger in learning the accent arts of divining the future. When I was four I began learning how to identify the suits of the tarot. However, I was six years old before I was allowed to accompany my mother to work and watch her tell fortunes from behind the heavy velvet curtains that she draped to make the area seem smaller and more private. By age 7, I was regularly attending work with mother and Mirela to help her ready the room for her clients. On slower days I took the opportunity to practice patterns of laying the tarot and memorizing their symbols. Eventually, with a great deal of practice we even learned how to make them fall in the exact order that we wanted. I was in no way the quick study in tarot that Mirela was and honestly didn't get a firm grasp on it until I was about 10. With one notch under my belt, I then moved on to studying the art of palmistry which I picked up a bit easier than the tarot, but still my mother didn't think me ready to begin taking on clients until I turned thirteen. I only worked in my grandmother's ofisa for 2 years before my father started talking to the fathers of some of the Roma boys within our community. From talking with Mirela, I knew that to mean that negotiations for my marriage had begun. However, my father was very particular and didn't accept the first offer that he received on my hand which delayed my nuptials for an additional year. The offer he finally did accept came from the father of a boy named Emilian. I knew Emilian by reputation only. By our standards his family was rather well off. After paying a hefty dowry to my father, we were married in a 3 day long ceremony. I was then in the care of my husband's family. At first my in laws were nice enough. My new mother in law even taught me how to read auras and interpret runes, but when I didn't conceive in the first year of marriage she started being a little colder towards me. I was even taken to a doctor to insure that nothing was wrong with me and I could have children. When all tests came back stating that nothing was wrong, my husband and I resumed trying. In the second year of our marriage, I suffered two miscarriages and my in laws were completely disgusted with me. They went from being cold towards me to being incredibly verbally abusive. Since they were starting to suspect that I couldn't provide them with grandchildren, they decided to get their dowry back by forcing me to do most if not all the household work. By our third year of marriage between cooking, cleaning, caring for my husband's nieces and nephews and working in the ofisa, I was exhausted. More importantly than that, I was miserable. Midway through year three I asked for a divorce, which somehow I think is exactly what they wanted as they didn't put up much of a fuss. I was returned to my family and my father returned a portion of the dowry he had received for the marriage. I have been living with them ever since, working as a fortune teller in my mother's shop which I hope to take over some day. ------------------------------------------------- MAYBE I SHOULDN'T HAVE ASKED. ANYWAY, THATS IT. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME. It's fine. You wouldn't be the first to develop a curiosity into a lifestyle that for most is shrouded in mystery. I'm sorry that it probably wasn't the fairytale that you were expecting. ------------------------------------------------- THE PERSON BEHIND THIS WONDERFUL CHARACTER IS GENERALLY CALLED Kaya AND SITS AT 33. S/HE LIVES IN THE EST TIMEZONE. ALSO, THIS CHARACTER LOOKS PRETTY SIMILAR TO Aminah Haq, DON'T YOU THINK?

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