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Dear Diary, Another year begins, and again my life moves in directions I never could have imagined. Unexpectedly, Elisabeth Von Werdenberg did more than just prepare a passport for me: she made arrangements to chaperone me directly into Germany. Elisabeth and Ernst with Sigmund Freud And I am quite sure that without her help I might not have made it …

February 25, 1916 Dear Diary, I haven’t had the urge to write for the last few days, but perhaps now the spark of hope has been relit. As I mentioned, I asked our newspaper’s editor about the prospect of joining the growing group of overseas journalists like Alice Rohe and Mary Roberts Rinehart, whose incredible book Kings, Queens and Pawns …

December 21, 1915 Dear Diary, Some Canadian pride this week as our men in the skies are beginning to show their strength. There is a rumour that a Canadian fighter pilot named M.M. Bell-Irving has been responsible for downing a German plane in the skies over Europe. I wonder if there are any other young pilots in our military that …