Irma Lehtosalo was 18 when she had her son Marko. In Marko & Irma, she now tells what it was like to become a mother at a young age, that her parents asked her to move away from home when Marko was three months old.
– In the beginning, I, Marko’s father and Marko lived at my mother and father’s house for maybe three months. Then mother and father said I needed to move away from home, Irma says.
Did not tell anyone that the family moved to Sweden
Then Irma and Marko’s father took his pick and pack and moved from Finland to Sweden.
– I didn’t tell anyone, neither my mother nor my sister, that I was moving to Sweden. I just wrote a note on the door that said “has moved to Sweden“she says.
In the player above, you can hear Irma’s story.