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a n n icomes down now to listen in, which is mostly very nervewracking.We hardly have any theory at all anymore,only one lesson per afternoon at the most.On Thursday for Ascension Day most of the girlswent to Treseburg and already spent a night there. Theyhave also hiked further from there. Our class stayed here.There was a wonderful quiet in the house. Four of us(including me) had Sunday duties completely withoutteachers. We had to cook and prepare everything. It wasenormous fun and the meal was delicious –we thoughtso at least.In the morning of Ascension Day there was a realproper thunderstorm and then it poured like anything,a beautiful spring rain. It was so relaxing lying in bedand watching it. I don’t know yet what will happen atWhitsun. Hopefully it will also be nice and quiet for you.I am happy that the grounds are so nicely back to rightsagain.Now a very, very affectionate greeting for Sunday anda little kiss from yourAnniHopefully Sunday will be really beautiful for the twoof you, with warm spring sunshine. I will have time allSunday long to think of you.With Irmgard Blau attending college in Halle, she andAnni saw each other only every few months. Fortunately,Anni discovered that many of her interests –from46
t h a l ec o l l e g eeducating children to reading Dostoevsky –were sharedby one of her classmates in the Kindergarten-Hort class,Emi-Margret Arnold. The two became close friends,sharing a room in the second year at college. They enjoyedtaking lengthy walks together, often going for hourswithout feeling the need to speak. When they did talk,Anni soon realized that Emi-Margret could identify withher desire for a life that was lived truly and freely. Butfor Emi-Margret, these were not just vague ideas, andin their many long discussions she told Anni about herfamily and the community she belonged to. This was agroup of families and singles who were trying to live likethe earliest Christians. In 1920 Emi-Margret’s parentsand aunt Else had started this venture by moving fromBerlin to a farmstead in rural Germany. Already therewere over fifty members at the community, which wasknown as the Sparhof. The basis for this radical lifestyle,said Emi-Margret, was belief in Jesus. While the life incommunity sounded like a Youth Movement dream cometrue, Anni found the religious basis less attractive. As shelater recounted,Emi-Margret told me some of the inner background ofthe community she came from, but I could not understandit. I sensed that Emi-Margret had a real belief inGod, a firm basis, and that is what we discussed mostly,but I was afraid of it. I wanted to be very sure that thisreally was the truth and not that I would find out after ayear or two that it was giving the appearance of being real47
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Letters & Writings of Annemarie Wä
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This book is dedicated to Annemarie
Page 8 and 9: ForewordDear Reader,The writings in
Page 10 and 11: t h ef o r e w o r dAs a young woma
Page 13 and 14: 1.ChildhoodThe baby was christened
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Page 19 and 20: c h i l d h o o dpreferring romanti
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Page 23 and 24: 2.Leaving HomeIn fall of 1925, Anni
Page 25 and 26: l e a v i n gh o m efrom Keilhau, I
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Page 29 and 30: l e a v i n gh o m eis behind all t
Page 31 and 32: l e a v i n gh o m eFlame, free us
Page 33 and 34: l e a v i n gh o m eThe summer sols
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Page 41 and 42: l e a v i n gh o m eThe St. John’
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Page 45 and 46: 3.Thale CollegeAnni had entered the
Page 47 and 48: t h a l ec o l l e g elife. She too
Page 49 and 50: t h a l ec o l l e g eAnd what then
Page 51 and 52: t h a l ec o l l e g eexistence of
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Page 61 and 62: t h a l ec o l l e g eThale, May 18
Page 63 and 64: t h a l ec o l l e g eOn Whitsunday
Page 65 and 66: t h a l ec o l l e g etop to bottom
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Page 105 and 106: 6.CrossroadsAfter a summer vacation
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c r o s s r o a d sknow. There coul
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c r o s s r o a d ssomething differ
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c r o s s r o a d sspoke with great
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c r o s s r o a d sMargret, who was
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c r o s s r o a d sprofession. She
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c r o s s r o a d swrote to Emi-Mar
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c r o s s r o a d sWe all feel very
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c r o s s r o a d swell-it was diff
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c r o s s r o a d smistakes and goo
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c r o s s r o a d sexperienced the
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c r o s s r o a d sexperience I had
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c r o s s r o a d sin the thought o
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c r o s s r o a d sto visited Emi-M
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c r o s s r o a d scoming, and I pa
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a t t h e s p a r h o fIn actual fa
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a t t h e s p a r h o fthe men. The
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a t t h e s p a r h o fjuniper, hea
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a t t h e s p a r h o fyes. For ins
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a t t h e s p a r h o fa clearly de
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a t t h e s p a r h o fevery man, a
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a t t h e s p a r h o fexertion. It
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a t t h e s p a r h o fmisinterpret
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8.A Fixed PointAnni’s letter was
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a f i x e d p o i n tBecause, by di
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a f i x e d p o i n twork and life
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a f i x e d p o i n teach one’s p
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a f i x e d p o i n tbehind everyth
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a f i x e d p o i n ttheir strength
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a f i x e d p o i n treally can be
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a f i x e d p o i n tdetermined thi
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a f i x e d p o i n ttwo people, an
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a f i x e d p o i n tsure-really in
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a f i x e d p o i n torder to stand
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a f i x e d p o i n tremains person
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a f i x e d p o i n ton a community
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a f i x e d p o i n tglorifying the
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a f i x e d p o i n tThe girls all
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a f i x e d p o i n tagain? How is
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a f i x e d p o i n tUniting love w
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a f i x e d p o i n tclarity and pu
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c o n s e q u e n c egenuinely chil
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c o n s e q u e n c eYou wrote abou
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c o n s e q u e n c ethe actual, pr
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c o n s e q u e n c eevident that e
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c o n s e q u e n c earound the fir
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c o n s e q u e n c eSparhof, June
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c o n s e q u e n c eLooking forwar
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c o n s e q u e n c eduties to our
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c o n s e q u e n c ecan you look o
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10.Radicalism of Surrender;Radicali
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a d i c a l i s mshe was to be acce
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a d i c a l i s mdeep foundation. W
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a d i c a l i s mWe ask you once mo
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a d i c a l i s mfaithfulness to Go
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a d i c a l i s mit to us, I beg an
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a d i c a l i s mcame here through
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a d i c a l i s mIt was often so ho
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a d i c a l i s mIn late August, An
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a d i c a l i s mreligious experien
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a d i c a l i s mmade everything so
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a d i c a l i s mhighest point of o
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a d i c a l i s mwas a twig of pine
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a d i c a l i s mit arrives in time
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a d i c a l i s mWe don’t want to
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a f t e r w o r dI was in my room i
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a f t e r w o r drepudiated Nazism.
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a f t e r w o r dNow Reinhold was t
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a f t e r w o r dof people today se
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