Grammatical question

[epataj]

Dear SEELANGers,

I was hoping someone could explain to me the usage of the conjunction "i" in
phrases like

on prishol, chemu ja *i* obradovalsja
something good happened, o chem ja dazhe *i* ne mechtala
etc.

Thanks a lot,

Vadim

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