On January 12th of 1944, Anne details her new "dance and ballet craze" and describes that her mother has been reading a book which supposedly treats adolescent issues very well. Anne ironically comments that her mother might take more interest in the adolescent issues of her own daughters. Anne has never felt close to her mother, who always seemed to give snappy retorts in response to to her efforts to chat and be pleasant. Now, though, Anne thinks she has a savior: Peter, the object of her adolescent affections and lusts. Anne wonders who would suspect that so much is…