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I want you to know that when the war ended, I...I weighed the
equivalent of probably what is 70 pounds, and I was skin and bone.
And I do remember that when that British soldier came, and asked
me...he said he's...can he do something for me? And I said to him,
"I'd like two things." I'd like him to give me...bring me warm
socks. We're talking, this was already May. It was warm. I was
cold. I wanted warm socks, knee-length socks. And I wanted sugar.
So he brought me...I was craving sugar, I suppose. He brought me
socks and I do remember two things. I remember when he...that I put
on the socks and I started to cry because I didn't have any calf.
I was all bones and this...the knee-length socks wouldn't stay on.
But I also remember that when he gave me the sugar, and it may not
have been more than maybe a quarter of a pound maybe, a little bag
of sugar, but it was maybe, as I said, sugar, just plain sugar. I
took that bag and I just poured it into my mouth. I just ate it
like that. And I remember...I remember it because he got scared,
and he ran out looking for the nurses because he thought God knows
what I did to myself by eating all this sugar. And I remember the
nurse said to him in German that it's okay. I was probably just
craving sugar.
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