European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

"Oh, Francesco!" and we hugged here and hugged there.

After a few minutes he said: "Well, now we have to start working because ..."

"Oh, i have just arrived ...

Ok, let me wait for the discharge and I'll be back".

And so I did. After the discharge, the next morning, I went to the shop

and so we started a whole new life.

Discipline

Talking about discipline, once my tooth was aching and so I looked for a dentist.

We were in Cerreto Alpi to that time.

The dentist told me: "I don't have the tool for pulling your tooth".

I was in serious pain, I couldn't sleep nor eat, so he told me:

"Now I go and get this tool and then I'll let you come and pull the tooth".

To kill the pain the dentist told me to go and get a potato

from some peasant in village, grate it and put it onto the hurting tooth.

So before night shift I did this,

I bound a tissue around my face and placed myself not right on the street

but near it, so that I could see who was coming and going.

So while I was sitting there I started to think about my youth,

my family that I'd left, about this and that.

The potato must have worked, I'd felt bad for some days because of the pain