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She was born on 30 May 1881 in Ljubljana.
- She lived with sister Minka and half-sister Hermina at stepfather Alfonzo Pellan, since Anna's father died shortly after she was born, and Anna's mother then married Pellan and she too soon died.
- She was a very nice girl, calm, restrained, proud and very hardworking. She had a crippled right that she hid in front of people or wore gloves.
- Ana was often absent from school due to illness, but was able to complete her education.
- In 1903, Ana got her first job as a teacher at St. Benedict in Slovenske gorice, where she met Hinko Bregant (also a teacher at St. Benedict's school) and married him in 1905.
- Ana soon became ill with a liver disease and her illness was the main reason for her and her husband to apply for a teaching post in the Plešivec hill, where they had also moved in late 1905.

In 1898, Ana met Ivan Cankar while attending a bourgeois school at Ursuline in Ljubljana and became his great love.
- They met at a former park near Kolize, where her family resided. My stepfather had forbidden Ana from meeting Cankar, but he could not completely prevent it.
- When Cankar left Ljubljana in 1898 and went to live in Pula, his correspondence with Anica, as he himself called him, began.
- The correspondence between Ivan and Anna lasted less than 10 years (1898-1907) and Ana kept his 44 letters all his life.
- Cankar's first letters to Anna were purely love affair, in which he confessed his emotions:
"Stay true to me, Anica; no one else could love you as warmly and openly as I love you; every beat of my heart beats only for you, and with my love I make the paradise of life… ”

On November 1, 1903, after graduation, Ana Lušin received a teaching position at Sv. Benedict in Slovenske gorice. She taught 1st grade, which consisted of 36 boys and 22 girls.
- On April 5, 1904, the new school year began and Ana taught grade 2 (32 boys and 19 girls). On June 1, 1904, Anna was granted a three-week leave due to a "lung disease", which she extended until September 15, 1904. During this time, she was replaced by Fran Kosir.
- On November 1, 1904, Anna returned to work, but on January 17, 1905, she fell ill again, leaving her on leave until the end of the school year on April 18, 1905.
- On April 26, 1905, the new school year began and Ana taught in grade 3 (29 boys and 22 girls), and in the summer she enlisted with Hink Bregant (teacher at St. Benedict's school).
note: In the school chronicle, Hinko is named Henrik.
- On the morning of October 17, 1905, at 6:00, the wedding of Hinck / Henrik Bregant and Anna Lushin was held at St. Michael's Church. Benedict. At the same time, Ana Lušin gave up further teaching and on 18 August 1905 both moved to Plešivec.

The back says that the teacher sitting on the left is Ana Lušinova, Cankar's girlfriend, buried in Plešivec near Velenje. In the photo, Ana sits first from the left. She is bourgeois dressed; wears a wide long skirt and blouse with steering wheels. To her right stands her husband Hinko Bregant. Probably their imminent marriage and a trip to Plešivec were the reason why the teachers' assembly was allowed to take pictures. The photo was taken sometime in the early part of the school holidays in 1905. The photograph also features teacher Katica Vogrin, standing behind Ana, with teacher Franc Horvat next to him, pastor Franc Zmazek at the table, and chaplain Franc Gomilšek behind him. killed in 1943 by the Germans. Teacher Edwin Blenk sits at the table to the right, and teacher Franica Podlesnik to the far right, in front of Bregant.

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