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in a diary. Couldn’t I take my
friendship album and use it for that?” I said:
“There’s no point in that, you
can’t do any compositions yet.”
In the evening Lucy said
to me: “Oh Inge, Mama
said that I
can use my album as a diary.
Mama already wrote something
in it for me.” I said: “Fine,
then tomorrow we will just

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write in it right away.[”]
Vienna, February 18, 1938
Now, early in the morning, I will
give Papa my diary and Lucy’s diary
and will write in Lucy’s diary
with her.
Lucy I said: “I don’t know
where we should begin but
we will ask Mama.”
Lucy said: “Well, all right.”
Lucy said: “Inge, please read
your whole diary aloud to me.” I