WEBVTT - Konstantin_Forestier file: forestier_konstantin_50.txt

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I somehow still remember quite well:

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The First World War was over rather
quickly.

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As we lived close to the train station,

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we witnessed quite a few things. I can
remember that the

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returning trains were completely packed.

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The soldiers sitting on the roofs.

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and in between the carriages and
strenuously fighting their way through.

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At that time my father

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bought a bag of corn meal

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That was lucky back then,

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because a bag of corn meal was the
transitional food

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from the First World War until somewhat
more regulated shopping.

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We then moved into the flat.

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Then suddenly these people - you
couldn’t really say,

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they were relatives, but my parents knew
them -

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Dutch people, who suddenly said

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that they now wanted to come into the
post war area.

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These people came with guilders.

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Whoever paid with guilders pretty much
got everything

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which otherwise would have been
impossible. That’s why my mother sai

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she will take care of the food,

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she took the guilders and

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got us through quite well.

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But my father’s bag

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of corn meal got damp and smelled
mouldy.

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That’s why I don’t eat corn meal to this
day.