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I was examined by a doctor today and she was terrified at how thin I was. She’s sending me for some X-rays. Maybe I could get double soup at school. Five portions wouldn’t hurt but two would still be good. One isn’t enough, for sure. But the check-up left me frightened and worried. Lung disease is the latest craze in the ghetto. It wipes people out, just like dysentery or typhus. And the food situation is getting worse. There haven’t been any potatoes for a week and there won’t be any for a long time.

Today Niutek Radzyner came to me with an unusual proposal. He and some of the best members of our organization have formed a closeknit group, a commune almost, to study theory together (they have Marx’s Capital and Lenin’s works) and work for the organization in general. Niutek asked me to join them, which would mean personal contact of the kind I’m not used to. I agreed, but I wonder what will come of it. Anyway, it’s an interesting initiative and I’m sure I’ll gain a lot from it.