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Submitted by Harriet Schlinger

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Hungarian
Approval Date: 12/5/2021 12:03 PM
Family Surname:
Country: Hungary
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Please translate the attached image. It is a message written in the back of a photo. Thank you in advance.

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On  Response 
12/6/2021 2:23 PM As a memento
with much, much love
for aunt fanika
and uncle abe
from Jani Jolán and the
little Iboja

Attach at least mild question marks to all of the names.
The name-and-flower (violet) is correctly Ibolya, but in modern pronunciation, /ly/ and /j/ are both the same sound (consonantal 'y' as in 'yellow').

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