When the Germans were retreating, they took our pig and caught the last of our chickens. Before that, partisans had taken our cow away in the night…My mother hadn’t wanted to give it up, so one of the partisans shot up at the ceiling. They carried off Mama’s sewing machine and her dresses, too. Were they partisans or just burglars? They had guns…So, well, what can you do…? People always want to live, even during wartime. You’ll learn a lot from living through a war…There is no beast worse than man. It’s men who kill other men, not bullets. People kill people…Ah, my dear girl!
