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"Now I'm going home, I tell your relatives and then you come home and eat with us".

Yes, sure, eating with them, they didn't even have food to eat for themselves!

Everything took a good end.

Anyway, I left my father and the head of my unit, "Falco", told me:

"Get three or four men and go on patrol on the Via Emilia".

I went to talk also to my boss because I cared for him, too,

i met him in front of the shop and he said

"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