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Dear Grandmother,
I have been missing you very much. I wish we could have stayed in Berlin with you and Grandfather instead of coming here, to Out-With. I don't like it here at all. The house is only three stories, and is a lot smaller. Because it is so small, there is barely any room to explore inside it. There are no other houses near it which means there are no other boys to play with. It is in the middle of no where. There are no fruit stalls with big trays piled high with cabbages, carrots, cauliflowers and corn nearby and I couldn't see any cafes anywhere. The house makes me think that no one ever laughs there. There is nothing to laugh about or to be happy about. I don't think this will ever be my home.
Outside of my window there is a nice garden and then after the garden there is a bench with a plaque on it but I can't read what it says all the way from my window. After the bench with the plaque on it, there is a very, very, very big fence. There are tall telegraph poles all along it to hold it up. At the top, it curves inward and then there is a heap of barbed wire bales that looks very sharp. After the fence there is a lot of hard ground. In the distance on the hard ground there are a lot of little huts and small buildings scattered around the place. There are smoke stacks and soldiers at the huts and small buildings. The soldiers don't do much except order a heap of people around. The people that I can see that aren't soldiers are wearing striped pyjamas and cloth caps. There are children on the other side of the fence except they don't look like the sort of children I would want to play with. They stay in small groups and get scared when the soldiers talk to them. I know soldiers are scary, except not even the Hopeless Case would be that scared of them.
In our new house at Out-With, there are always soldiers walking around as if they own the house and they always go into Father's office and everyone calls him 'the Commandant' now. For some reason, the Hopeless case came with us and she brought all her evil dolls with her and set them up in her room so they can watch everything that I do.
We have Maria as a maid still but we have three new maids that only whisper to each other and we have an old man who comes in every afternoon and peels the vegetables for dinner. At dinner time the old man waits on us. His name is Pavel, and one time a made a swing from a tyre and I fell off it. He was the only adult home and he saw it happen so he carried me inside and fixed my leg. He said he used to be a doctor. Do you know why he stopped being a doctor?
I am missing you a lot and I wish you could come to our house at Out-With and do another production for Father, Mother, and Grandfather again.
Hope to see you again soon,
Your loving grandson, Bruno.
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