Arkadi
Kotanjyan

I want to write only a part of my biography, which is related to banana boxes. In my youth, our family used to buy fruit from the fields and farmers' markets and our parents transported them 1200 km away to sell them. I helped load the minibus and the trailer with banana boxes filled with fruit, and while my parents were away, I collected a new batch of banana boxes for the next trip, as my parents brought back disassembled boxes to save space in the car. I had to do this job in 3 days. For that, I made staples from aluminum wire and made holes on the corners of the box to fit the size of the staples, and then fastened the corners so that they could withstand a new load of fruit. This was how I spent the whole summer and part of the autumn. Banana boxes also served as the base for my bed, because my bed did not have an orthopedic base, I slept directly on the boxes laid inside the bed.