European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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Around the same time, the landlord invited all the farmers to go over to her house
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and listen to Mussolini’s speech about the beginning of the war in Africa.
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My mother and I went in front of the landlord’s living room.
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We couldn’t go inside the house in order not to dirty it.
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My mother had been told to call the farmers to listen to the Duce.
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I was very happy. I was going to do something different and listen to a new thing.
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When I heard the radio I was dazed since I couldn’t understand where that deep voice was coming from.
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I didn’t understand what the voice was saying
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and the meaning behind those words, unlike my mother.
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I realized it had to be something terrible when I saw my mother crying on our way back home.
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She was thinking about her six boys, who all were almost old enough to be enlisted for war.
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From that moment I wasn’t happy having listened to the radio.
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Sharecropping family; Womens conditions
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I have always remembered the fact that when the landlord arrived in the courtyard,
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my mother told us younger children to go inside.
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I was really curious to see the landlord woman, all dressed up and carrying a small sunshade.
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She was the countess Carbonieri of Parma.
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Later I understood why we had to go inside.
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My mother didn’t want the landlord to see us kids who could not work yet.
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She didn’t want her to count how many cups of milk she would take out every morning to feed us.
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