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24. Amini Diary's
Maart/1914
My name is Amini Anne Seno, the first child of Broto seno and Helena asmirah de jong. Father of indigenous descent while mother of mixed dutch. Mother wanted us to call them with vader and moeder, but you wanted to be strong with your own country language. My younger brother is Batata Seno, and there is another sister in my mother's stomach.
I got this diary as my birthday gift from my dad which is useful for retelling what happens every day and it's so much fun. I was a little lucky to be born from a good family and not exposed to evil colonization with enough life and relatives with the invaders who have been long-dwelling in our country.
The father of good and patient people taught me a lot about making a work. A good mother is sometimes not good. I like to get angry and smile wide, sometimes also hit me and Batara. Mother becomes good if her heart is calm and changes instantly if she feels bad. I sometimes see that mom is weird. It's scary if her anger relapses.
Today, my family and I moved into a new house built by my father and mother. I can also learn but can not be friends with natives who do not study, it makes me sad. Though the father did not forbid, but the mother was so hard on me and Batara. Sometimes we also visit the grandparents of the father's family, he said the father of native origin, but why the original grandmother of the Netherlands ? is the father not his son?
Batara again played with Toni, the boy who was selling around, I let her because I also wanted to make friends. But my friend is only Mary, a good friend and not arrogant. Sometimes it also feels strange with the situation of this country that makes you sad and sad, sometimes you share rice but if you know, you can be angry. My mother is stingy.
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May/1914
Mother today scolded me, my ass was hit many times. I was caught playing in the streets with indigenous children. Mom is so mean, I don't like you. Why don't you like me playing with them, why is mommy that bad, my ass so sore and I lock the room.
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This time I went for a walk with my dad, it was really nice. I told her and asked if she was my mother. Why is mom so bad to me, sometimes good and sometimes bad. You just told me that mom was sick, if you got sick you would get angry quickly, you asked me not to make her sick.
But what a sick mother is, a sick person can be evil because of pain. Batata is also just as upset with her wicked mother with her friends. I always didn't like a lot of things. I just love it when we study and stay home.
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July/1914
My leg was injured for accidentally dropping the cauldron, my mother was angry because I couldn't keep myself. Mom was very angry and lectured me a lot. I just stayed in my room but mom broke down my door and slapped me because I locked it. I cried screaming as I wanted, then mom cried too and apologized to me and I forgave her. I'm sorry for you a lot, but you never understand me.
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It turns out that when I asked the father, the father had a native biological mother. But once a noni dutch fell in love with grandfather and forced to marry, grandfather could not do much but be forced to marry him. Grandma was sad and hurt until she died. It was a story from my father that made me cry sad.