European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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I was wearing English boots that the shoemaker had adapted to my feet.
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Even so, once I got there, I couldn’t take it anymore because my feet were hurting badly.
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After I completed my task, he would hand me a pair of scissors,
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telling me that my nails were probably too long, and he suggested that I soak my feet to feel better.
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I would then go to a house where two elderly women used to live, and I would finally sleep there in a real bed.
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The following day they cooked polenta twice, for lunch and dinner.
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One was made with chestnuts, the other one with cornmeal. I really felt well there.
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Sometimes other girls would come, but he always wanted me to stay there.
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But my poor sister had to sleep in huts and sheds the whole time, wherever she could.
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At first I asked why they asked me to do this or that,
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but then I realized that it was necessary, that it was my duty to do something.
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For example, when we were kids, if a farmer was making hay my father would tell us to go help him.
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“It might start raining”, he would say, and then he would go pick up some rope, while we all went to help the farmer.
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Battle-name; first activities as a dispatch-rider
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As for myself, I was a dispatch-carrier.
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I would always move around, from Reggio to Secchio.
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My parents often asked me to go to the mountains, so some boys eventually told me:
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“If you go to the mountains, you could take us there with you”.
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Every now and then I would take some of them first to one place, then to another, until they would join a partisan unit.
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I would often go to Don Carlo, who was also a partisan, and would leave these boys with him.
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