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But it was dangerous because the fascists would come and get you.

So we arrived at Corniglio

and we met this lady who was sitting outside her house knitting.

We asked her: "Lady, we're looking for partisans, the rebels ..."

Up there they didn't even know who the partisans were and we didn't have a proper term for them, either.

So she said: "Look, there is a house up there, there is a man with some people,

I don't know what they're doing, I don't know if they're workers or somebody else.

If you want to go up and have a look ..."

So we went to see and in fact it was a group of rebels led by that man.

We said we wanted to join them and they welcomed us.

"If you want to come out on patrol with us, otherwise you can wait here".

We said: "No, we want to come". So we did, one group here, one group there.

When we came back we went to this barn,

which was transformed into a hideout,

and there were butter and cheese and a lot of great stuff.

One woman was making tagliatelle for the whole team.

Wonderful! We were not even used to eat this dish at our own homes!

After lunch, when we came back, the head of our team told us:

"Go to the houses where the ladies are and invite them here so we can dance and have a chat".

And so we did, and some girls came and we chatted and danced.