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Alma’s Diary

Hello, it’s me again (well, who else d’you think it would be?)

        Sorry I haven’t kept up to date but our Joan’s been pestering me, putting her nose in all me stuff. She’s out with me mam at the moment, so I’ve got some time alone, thank god!

        It’s horrid sharing a room with Joan, she’s so daft all the time, always complaining. I don’t think me tabs can take owt more! Sometimes I wake up in the morning an their ringing from the night before! I could throttle her at times, always moaning that the rooms too cold or she’s hungry, it’s not me mams fault we ain’t got enough money for heating.

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She’s lost her job you see, me mam that is. Anyway, she had one of them nervous break downs or something because it was the same day that me dad went away 2 years ago to go to the war. He hasn’t come back yet.  I wish he didn’t go away from us, me mam says he’s gone some place nice that I will go to one day and when I get there I get to stay there forever, she says that I will never be in pain or hungry there. (Can’t wait to find out where it is.) I ...

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