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This wasn’t a problem at all, since the oil was nasty and rancid,
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but it was already a sign of the discrimination existing towards women.
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We didn’t take much math, but we spent a lot of time doing gymnastics, as we had to forge our physique.
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Since we didn’t have a gym, every day we spent two hours in the school courtyard doing physical education,
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even in the winter when it turned cold.
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We were all excited for the gymnastics display we were working on.
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It would take place in the main square, in front of our parents and all the others.
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However, Mussolini wanted children to wear a uniform from our earliest childhood:
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the “Figli della Lupa”, the “Balilla”, the “Piccole Italiane”, the “Avant-gardists”.
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Mothers were enrolled in the “Massaie rurali” (rural housewives),
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and were given pamphlets for them to learn how to breed chickens and work the garden: the “war garden”.
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The whole family was
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organized.
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The Duce had also decided that large families were to be awarded with a certificate.
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Even more so for our family since there were six boys and two girls.
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This certificate had to be displayed at home, so that everybody could see
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that Mussolini had acknowledged these families
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who had generated manpower for the nation to prepare for war.
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When I was seven I suffered my first humiliation.
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My mother didn’t have enough money to buy me the uniform of the “Piccole Italiane”.
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