Agavni Chilingaryan and Aram Zakaryan
were my grandmother and grandfather

       Romantic love brought the young Agavni and Aram together. They created their family and in May 1912 was born their golden-haired girl Sirarpi, my mother.
       But their happiness was short-lived and the bloody events of 1915 intervened in the life of this young family. Avagni was among the first victims of this terrible tragedy.