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Then they told us we could go home, but they wanted to speak to us again the following morning.
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So I said: “Listen, I’m afraid to stay at home.
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Every night I go to San Bartolomeo to my cousin’s, she’s the local fascist secretary. Can I go there?”
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My cousin said the same: “I usually go with her, or to my mother’s, would you let us go there?”
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They told us we could.
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I got home and Mafaldo Chiessi, who was also an antifascist
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and in charge of communications between Reggio and Milan, told me:
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“Are you joking? You can’t stay here. Tomorrow they’ll torture you.
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Today was only the beginning. Things will be different tomorrow, trust me. Don’t think that they won’t come to get you.
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After what happened you must run away”.
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My poor father at some point said:
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“I have four children, but I have to admit I don’t know them.
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I never thought that you were…”
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That’s because we had been working in absolute secrecy.
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Even my boyfriend didn’t know what I was doing and his mother or his brother-in-law never told him.
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Secrecy was vital in order to survive; there was no other value but this.
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My father went on: “So now you’ll leave, too.
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I have a son who’s been away for a year now, and I don’t know where he is and if he’s alive.
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As for the other one, I have had no news for the last three months. He came home for a while but I don’t know where he is now”.
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There was no communication with the families from the mountains to the valley.
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