For better or for worse: A family on the edge of society


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While there is a certain beauty to their life in nature, Ciorniciuc said it also came with a lot of "buts” about the welfare of the children, their education and their future. Photos: Zeitgeist Films/Kino Lorber via AP

Just outside of Bucharest, a family with nine children once called the lands around an abandoned water reservoir and landfill home.

For decades, the Enaches lived in nature and slept in a crowded but cozy hut. They didn’t disturb anyone and no one disturbed them until the city decided that the area should be turned into a public park where they could no longer live. It had in 25 years of being largely untouched transformed into a spectacularly diverse ecosystem.

The Enaches suddenly found themselves having to adjust an existence that they'd desperately resisted.

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