to maintain a normal facade alk,   c of all I miss tdoors and ! I tting everytty, but tate of utter confusion: on t looking at ter to me so muc be calm again!

    Day and nig ask myself, quot;o be alone? oo mucime upstairs? Do you talk too muc serious subjects  yet ready to talk about? Maybe  even like you?  all been your imagination? But told you so muc ; And a w more.

    Yesterday afternoon I  by tside t I lay doed o sleep and not o t until four, but to go next door. It  easy, ansions and inventing an excuse to explain my nap to Fat a lie, since I did he inside!

    Ordinary people, ordinary girls, teenagers like myself, tle nuts y. But ts just it. I pour my  out to you, and t of time Im as impudent, c as possible to avoid questions and keep from getting on my own nerves.

    Margot is very kind and o confide in  I cant tell akes me too seriously, far too seriously, and spends a lot of time t er, looking at me closely w;Is sing, or does s?”

    Its because oget  to be around me all time. angle my jumbled ts? hen will I find inner peace again?

    Yours, Anne

    tUESDAY, MARCh 14, 1944

    Dearest Kitty,

    It mig for me) to  o eat today. tairs, so at t Im seated at table  preo my nose and mout est idea alking about, so let me quot;begin at t; ted, so  ra- -, tion books-no coupons, no fats and oils. Since Miep and Mr. Kleiman are sick again, Bep cant manage tcomor- ro , butter or margarine. e cant eat fried potatoes for breakfast (ead, and becau