to maintain a normal facade alk, c of all I miss tdoors and ! I tting everytty, but tate of utter confusion: on t looking at ter to me so muc be calm again!
Day and nig ask myself, quot;o be alone? oo mucime upstairs? Do you talk too muc serious subjects yet ready to talk about? Maybe even like you? all been your imagination? But told you so muc ; And a w more.
Yesterday afternoon I by tside t I lay doed o sleep and not o t until four, but to go next door. It easy, ansions and inventing an excuse to explain my nap to Fat a lie, since I did he inside!
Ordinary people, ordinary girls, teenagers like myself, tle nuts y. But ts just it. I pour my out to you, and t of time Im as impudent, c as possible to avoid questions and keep from getting on my own nerves.
Margot is very kind and o confide in I cant tell akes me too seriously, far too seriously, and spends a lot of time t er, looking at me closely w;Is sing, or does s?”
Its because oget to be around me all time. angle my jumbled ts? hen will I find inner peace again?
Yours, Anne
tUESDAY, MARCh 14, 1944
Dearest Kitty,
It mig for me) to o eat today. tairs, so at t Im seated at table preo my nose and mout est idea alking about, so let me quot;begin at t; ted, so ra- -, tion books-no coupons, no fats and oils. Since Miep and Mr. Kleiman are sick again, Bep cant manage tcomor- ro , butter or margarine. e cant eat fried potatoes for breakfast (ead, and because Mrs. van D. tarving, s of masatoes and pickled kale. tionary measure believe ink cure of spoiled plums, rotten eggs and brine. Ug t of o eat t muck makes me to t, our potatoes racted sucrange diseases t one out of every ts of pommes de terre ertain ourselves by trying to figure out hey suffer from cancer, smallpox and measles.
ly, being in inking mess were over!
to tell you trut matter so muco me if life in ot ts just it: tedious existence is starting to make us all disagreea