European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The school we attended was very crowded because there were many kids in the villages:
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there were three classes together, and it was quite full.
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Naturally, our school had no toilet facilities, no running water and no electricity.
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There was a portrait of Mussolini, one of the king, and a crucifix.
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Our teacher actually made the ink herself with some black powders in a flask.
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I was always happy to go to school: actually, I longed for school.
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My mother died when I was four and a half years old, my brother was almost six,
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so I suffered from this loss, too.
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I don’t know about other kids, but each has his own grief.
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I sort of overcame this when my daughters were born,
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but at times I still haven’t come through.
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I still dream of this… Anyway.
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Reached victories are never for ever
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I’m eighty now. Actually, eighty-one, as you’ve already counted.
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Regardless of all the battles I fought, before the Liberation as well as afterwards,
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with my biggest battle starting after the war, if I’m still here it’s because I believe that victories are not everlasting.
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Things can always be changed.
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The younger generations have been lucky that we haven't had any other wars in Italy in the last sixty years.
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We’ve taken part in some, but we weren’t directly involved.
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I believe that this was also due to some of the actions that I got involved in,
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