European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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At 5 in the evening I was there with my unit.
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I had left the mountains, a lovely family, and we were all crying for our separation…
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The brigade arrived at 8. At 10 we headed out
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and Luigi ordered me to place myself at the head of the brigade
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to monitor the situation and proceed slowly to avoid mines or traps.
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We entered the city slowly and arrived at the San Pietro gate.
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We crossed the ring road and there was an Allied column on the road:
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they were eating - we didn’t know what that was, chewing gum -
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and you couldn’t hear them walking by as they had rubber under their shoes, while we made so much noise.
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We went in from San Pietro and reached the centre.
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Then we set up some outposts.
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I went to eat with my unit and others
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in a restaurant in Prampolini Square, where we had… a thin soup.
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We were poisoned by all the cheese we had been eating.
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We had eaten cheese and bread or bread and butter for months,
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even though I was luckier since I was always moving around, on the hills, in the lowlands.
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We would be eating with the families then, and that meant enjoying a totally different meal.
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During the night we set up an outpost in Santo Stefano,
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with our headquarters at Pecorari’s, a bicycle producer.
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The following morning I told the others I had to leave
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