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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

A Day in the Life of a Peasant (1701)

Dear Journal,

Today was very cold and windy. I've grown tired of wandering and getting by with just a few bites of food and the clothes on my back. Elector Frederick III rules so crudely yet spends our tax dollars on materialistic things. His ridiculously expensive palace, for example, is proof of his lavish ways. His unnecessary taxes are unfair and his reduction of my freedoms is cruel and unjust. My rights have been reduced to practically nothing. I don’t know how much longer of this I can take.

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