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After a few weeks father came to visit to find his wife unconscious and his children running high temperatures. It was spotted fever. He got hold of some powdered medicine from the military doctor and cared for us himself until the crisis point had passed and we were on the road to recovery. As the Uzbek woman wouldnÖt have us in her hut we slept under the open sky. I well remember that starlit expanse and the many shooting stars - each, it was said, was a dying man. We children recovered quite quickly but mother took more time. We all had better appetites than before the illness.
Waiting/not knowing
B. M. TRYBUCHOWSKI
Osada Lohwinowicze, District Nieswiez