European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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On the 25th of April I was at the brigade headquarters. I was told to get my unit ready to go back.
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We had all been waiting impatiently for that moment.
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I had been in the mountains for nine months, away from my family.
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I had taught a woman who worked in a restaurant in Vetto the way to my house.
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Once a week, when she went to Reggio to buy supplies, she’d bring me news about my family and give them mine.
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I was at the end of my strength.
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It was because of the way we lived, the shortage of food, the lack of vitamins.
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My legs hurt so much that before I went somewhere, I had to warm up like horses do before they run.
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I had a bad inflammation of the gums.
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Since we didn’t have anything else, the doctor taught us to put a few milligrams
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of verdigris in the water and rinse our mouth with that to disinfect.
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After a while a medical student joined us. He gave some vitamin injections to a few of us.
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The poor girls who did cried desperately because of the pain (he had to give the shots into their backs).
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That was the way we were living. We were really looking forward to go back home.
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When they gave me the news I was in Gottano.
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I sat on a rock just outside town and could see the mountains and woods all around.
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I recalled all my memories of the partisan struggle
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and suddenly was hit by sadness. Not because I was leaving that place,
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but because I had seen too many of my comrades die.
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Leaves her fiancé to stay a partisan
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