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When we tell you where to go, just go there and he’ll hand you some stuff”.

The meeting point was a hotel behind the Riunite pharmacy.

I would go there, go inside and wait for him.

He’d arrive, hand me a small package, we’d say goodbye and leave.

Generally he’d bring handguns.

If there were only two handguns, I’d carry them alone. I had a big breast

and they would fit perfectly right in the middle…

I’d strap them to my waist and by bicycle I would get to Cerezzola,

to Currada, where I met Marco (Sergio Beretti’s battle name).

Sometimes I brought ammunition, other times salt, etc.

One day Maria Montanari’s cousin, who worked at the Reggiane plant,

had managed to bring out an airplane radio-transmitter.

It was big, and it was at my house.

It wasn’t a normal radio-transmitter.

It had a button you had to press, and during the war it was the one the armies had.

So we had to bring it to the mountains.

Maria and I agreed on the following plan. I’d go to the mountains by train.

I’d get the Reggio-Ciano train at the station, put my bicycle on the coach and get on.

Maria was supposed to look at where I was sitting, and come inside.

We’d pretend we didn’t know each other.