Very nice to hear from you again, Katie. My roots are mostly British and they are Protestant. My wife Sonja and my stepson Miroslav are from Kraljevo, Serbia. I am trying to learn Serbian, but am lazy and not that bright, so I am not making great progress. One of the textbooks I use, “Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian” is from University of Wisconsin Press and they also publish a couple of books by Christina Kramer on Macedonian. Unfortunately, it is too late for me to learn Macedonian. I might think about learning it if I were younger. The number of Serbs and Macedonians is small, and they were under Turkish occupation for centuries, but, as you say, they still have done beautiful things. I love the Orthodox churches and cathedrals too. Since February 2022 I am a member of the Serbian Orthodox Church myself, and hope for salvation. I paid my respects to the Mulroney family when Brian Mulroney’s body was lying in state in Ottawa on Wednesday. Mila and Caroline Mulroney were both very friendly when I tried to speak Serbian to them and they spoke it back to me. I asked the youngest child, Nicholas, if he spoke Serbian too, but he told me he didn’t and I should try the other side of the line (where Mila and Caroline were). Have you visited Macedonia, Katie? I would like to see it sometime myself. I remember the evocative descriptions of Macedonia in Rebecca West’s book on her trip to prewar Yugoslavia.