Diary of a Young Girl

Parties every week, balls, banquets, beautiful girls, waltzing, dinners, a huge

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house, etc. After Grandpa died, most of the money was lost, and after the
Great War and inflation there was nothing left at all. Up until the war there
were still quite a few rich relatives. So Father was extremely well-bred, and he
had to laugh yesterday because for the first time in his fifty-five years, he
scraped out the frying pan at the table.
Mother's family wasn't as wealthy, but still fairly well-off, and we've
listened openmouthed to stories of private balls, dinners and engagement