"A lot of our people stopped shaving. The first sign was the men going to pieces. But most of those people pulled themselves together when they were given work. But on the men collapsed more easily than the women. And at first the death rate of men was the highest.
The famine had peculiar physical effects on people. Women were so run down that they stopped menstruating. So many people died we had to bury them without coffins. People had their feelings blunted and never seemed to weep at the burials. It was all done in complete silence, without any display of emotion. When things began to improve the first signs were that women began to put rouge and lipstick on pale, skinny faces."
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