In my distress I reached out to a diary of another beloved family member long gone, my Grandfather, whose papers I had managed to photocopy, and have wanted to study.

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Keeping a spending diary for a week and getting the whole family involved has got us all talking about other issues too.

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Surfbook was a social diary that let people share information with friends and family and approve some data using a "like" button, according to legal papers filed by Fish and Richardson.

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Anne Frank's diary, written during the two years the teenager and her family hid from the Nazis in occupied Amsterdam, made her a symbol of the suffering of Jews during World War II.

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The original manuscript of her Diary, published in 2008, will be presented, as well as many family archives.

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