3. Kriegstagebuch von Walter Naumann (Dezember 1916-April 1917), item 24

• November 21, 2017 22:49:14 Thomas A. Lingner

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  I feel fine always, Is it the regular

  life or is it because I don't "those" things

  anymore. I only wish I could stop 

  it and don't do it again in all my

  life.

    Otto send me his picture as moto-

  Mike with funny remarks. I thought

  while coming home from Hessenlager,

  much about passed times

  in Phila. That little wonderful

  Telephone girl passed before my mind,

  dressed as sailor. She could smile

  so nice and talk so sweet although

  she was married. The time I passed

  there with that big Greek Geary. Waiter 

  for the clerks and in the evening Proprietor

  of a Monies shop. The simple

  way we served those people there.

  Ruck-zuck. The Kitchen at the continental

  camp and with that of the Blackstone!

  We took the vegetable and gravy

  ourself. What a fool we was. How nice

  I could have it at home. Well I hope

  time will come where it will be so.

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  The history of Anna until now.

  I had the same experience in my

  life. The first time of real love, you

  think you cannot live without her,

  and after you slept with her the

  first night all is going. All illusions

  away. You are ashamed. So in my

  history of Tolstoi. These are people which

  lived before I was born and done

  the same thing which occurred to me.

  Now that I selpt with Clara I don't

  write anymore, I know it is not

  right but I cannot help it. I must

  try something new. It is the new that

  tickles me. I wonder if I like it still

  the way I did the last time. The first

   I had that girl and I nearly

  went crazy when I went to bed the

  first night. The second time I saw

  her once and had enough of it,

  I always talk of U.S.A. as being the

  Paradise of the world. I try thinking all

  over I find that it was one of the

  saddest parts in my life. Compared

  
  

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