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Written by l̸̹̍̀a̸̜͋̐͜k̴̼͗̽͆̈́ḛ̵͗̈́ͅ on 2025-02-05 at 02:21

my great grandmother wrote poetry. i’ve never been able to read a lot of it before, because it always involved a painstaking google translate process from German to English, but i was able to translate some today thanks to a image-to-text translate feature i was previously unaware of.

this one really hit me. i always wondered how she felt about immigrating from Austria to the US - which she did before wwii - now i know

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Written by l̸̹̍̀a̸̜͋̐͜k̴̼͗̽͆̈́ḛ̵͗̈́ͅ on 2025-02-05 at 02:54

here are some more. she was the og sadgirl </3…..

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Written by l̸̹̍̀a̸̜͋̐͜k̴̼͗̽͆̈́ḛ̵͗̈́ͅ on 2025-02-05 at 03:12

last one. this was a short story she wrote about an event from her life; I translated it with google translate some years ago. yeah she says g**** but please forgive her she wrote it in the 70s.

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i was told she spent her childhood in Austria living as an orphan, running around in the forest, and hanging out with the romani people that lived there. allegedly they taught her palmistry and how to read cards too…

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