Dear Diary, Feburary 26, 1943

How are you? My day has just started off amazingly and it seems it will only get better. It started off with my husband waking me up with his whispers. He tryed so hard not to wake me up while putting my breakfest on my bed. I woke up to his lips on mine and hearing him say my love it's time to wake up. I love him so much and today even with my cough is going to be an amaizng day. I walked outside with the greetings of soliders outside my door greeting me and asking why i'm so happy. I walked over to the buildings and saw a big crate on the ground with 12 more being unloaded from the plane. One of the soliders opened up the crate and saw guns and smiled. He pulled a gun out and called me over. I was very suprised that they wanted to talk to me about this, but i guess knowing i was the wife of the man in charged, they were very friendly. The gun on the left is the STG44. It was orignaly designed in 1942 but then was acctually used on the front lines in 1943. It was a fully automatic gun that only had the side effect of its users going deaf when fired too much. This gun was very powerful and always left a mark. I went over to my husband and he pulled me over to him giving me a kiss on my forehead. I leaned over to the side and started coughing uncontrolably. Blood got all over my hand when i tryed to cover my mouth. I closed my hand and told my husband that i am going shopping and that i will be home at about 6 to cook him dinner. i gave him a kiss and walked away. As i was walking away i opened my hand and looked at the blood. It was caked onto my hand and wasn't coming off. All i could think about was what was going to happen to my baby. But im off to the store. I'll write latter when I can.

Love,

Maria