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A 17 new: Photo/postcard size/landscape /black and white/ family photo

A 17 new: Photo/postcard size/landscape /black and white/ family photo

There nine of us children, five girls and four boys. I first had to go away from home when I was eight or nine years old. That was really bad. In the summer we led our cows over the Simplon, and on the way there I was taken to a woman who needed a little herder.

Luise T.-S., born 1928, from Ausserberg in Wallis, Switzerland