21st September 1940

Today I found some change lying around in a bombed house and decided to buy a small book from the black market so that I could write about the war and then give it to some collector for money. Anyway, my mother wanted to keep me and my brother with the family so we were not evacuated. I wasn't very happy with this decision because it meant that I might not see my friends who were leaving, ever again.

Still, some of my friends are staying and we know where to get the best looking pieces of shrapnel to win in the competitions that are held at the end of the day at school. In the evening I had just found an egg shaped piece of shrapnel and was about to go into the house when the air raid sirens started blaring like anything, I rushed inside with my family and hoped my cardboard box with the shrapnel would still be there after the raid, but now its time to sleep.

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