![]() Anne believed that a mother should be tactful, ‘not laugh in my face when I cry about something - not about pain, but about other things - like "Mums" does.’ Instead of 'mother' Anne calls her 'Mums': 'the imperfect mother, as it were'. "He was very pleased," she said.’ Īnne had the hardest time dealing with her mother Edith. “Oh," she said, "my classmates had trouble believing what I told them, because it was so different from what they had learned about Nero.” “And the teacher?" I asked. Otto: ‘Some time later, I asked about her talk. A friend of Otto’s gave Anne books about Nero. When Anne had to give a talk about the Roman emperor Nero, she even wanted to go beyond the material covered in her history book. According to Otto, she disliked mathematics, but was enthusiastic about history. ![]() Īt school, Anne - unlike her sister Margot – was not in the top of her class. On the envelope, she glued a picture of her dad. Anne thought the letter ‘lovely’ and pasted it in her diary. To Anne, he wrote that things did not go as smoothly with her as with Margot, because Anne often struggled not to say 'Yes, but.’ all the time. When he turned 50, Otto Frank wrote letters to his wife, Margot, and Anne. ![]() Otto: ‘I remember very well how my wife once took her with her on a visit and when she came home she described exactly how everyone had been dressed, from top to toe.’ ![]() Anne was a sharp observer of other people.
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