This is on the back of a photo my mom found at the bottom of my great grandparents chest! The photo is really old, can someone kindly help translate.

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1. Dialect so strong that i barerly understand it 😄. Most likely someone from eastern slovakia.

2. The author is mentioning meeting their(?) kids, Emilko (a boy’s name) and a girl (can’t tell the name). That’s like the first two sentences. The rest is really hard to read and it’s still early in the morning.

3. I could not read it properly, but it might help someone else decode the rest:

   What I could read:

   ateras sem ja tu vostretku z mojima dvoma
   dzefkami moje dzeci emka ati kej dicka
   cavos neposnam pri pravej ruke kydazjej
   hlopom a na samum verhi ih bojsi troma stoja
   ato dzefčatko helenka neboškej mojej meni
   maju trimeme uš jej 14 roki apoň ľavej ruke zuza
   najmladsa moja dzefka ma 4 dzeci jedno
   dzefčatko a tri bojsi dvomesu dvojneta uš im
   3 a pol roki vidzice cojetaka hmurava
   cosi ju nahnevati jak nas odberal

   Translation (?):

   and here I am in the middle with my two
   girls my children Emka and her children
   that I do not know next to the right hand Kyda with her
   man and at the very top their three boys stand
   and the little girl Helenka of my passed away ??
   they hold she is fourteen and to the left hand Zuza
   my youngest girl has four children one
   girl and three boys two are twins they are
   three and half years old and you see the one that is frowning
   something made her upset when he was taking a picture of us

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