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My grandfather Mauricio was born in a small town called Dos torres de Mercader.
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When my grandfather was two years old, the Spanish Civil War broke out, he spent his early childhood under Republican threat, since he was in a Republican area and his people were nationalist.
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The Spanish civil war was from 1936 to 1939. It was a very bad period for our country.
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The victors of the Spanish Civil War impose a dictatorship with the caudillo Francisco Franco in command.
The opponents of the regime are persecuted and many have to go into exile. -
4 years after the end of the war, my grandmother María was born in the same town. He is born in his home cared for by a midwife. Her delivery was complicated, and her mother was about to die.
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At this time my grandmother suffered a lot, since her little brother, José, was recruited to do the military in the Sahara. These were hard times for his family, since they had not heard from him for years.
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When they had already been dating for a few years, my paternal grandparents got married. They organized a small wedding in the town surrounded by their loved ones.
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My father, Ernesto, was born on August 30, 1968 in the same town as my grandparents, Dos Torres, his birth was not in the hospital but rather he was born in my grandmother's room, helped by a midwife.
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During the 70s, many people emigrated to the cities, leaving the villages almost uninhabited, this is what happened to Dos Torres, which caused the school to close. My father and his classmates were forced to transfer to a home school in Teruel. By depriving them of seeing their parents daily.
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The caudillo Francisco Franco dies, the constitution is approved in the courts and in a referendum.
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A very special day in my father's life was the day he married my mother. The wedding was in the Canary Islands, since their dream was to get married on the beach.
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A year after getting married, my father had to leave for work for a time in Norway, he took the opportunity to visit Copenhagen and the fjords.
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I was born on September 23, at the Miguel Servet hospital.
While my parents were taking my older sister to school, my mother went into labor. -
My grandparents have always been great travelers, one of their best memories traveling was their cruise through Africa, they spent a month traveling by the continent.
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When I was 5 years old, my family and I traveled with some friends to Disneyland and visited Paris for a few days. Despite how small it was, I remember it as an amazing trip.
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My grandfather Mauricio had heart problems for many years, and finally in 2013 in a Madrid clinic they operated on him. After several days in the operating room, the operation was successful and we were all able to rest in peace.
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On May 9, 2015 I made my first communion. I took communion in the church of San Jorge, all my loved ones came and we celebrated it for everything great in the afternoon.
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In August 2015, during the town's patron saint festivities, the residents and residents of Dos Torres decided to honor my grandmother's effort, work, and dedication to the town by giving her a commemorative plaque.
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In the summer of 2017, my family with some friends traveled through Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and ended up on a tour in the Russian capital Moscow. We learned a lot about Orthodox culture and religion and I remember it as one of the best trips I have ever done.
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In 2018, my father took my sister and me on a trip to South America, we visited Argentina (Buenos Aires, Patagonia), another destination was Brazil, where we discovered the amazing city of Rio de Janeiro, we also made a stop at the Iguazú Falls and finally we spent a few days in Paraguay and Uruguay.
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Last winter was one of the best of my life, I traveled with my sister and my mother to Istanbul, the Turkish capital. The city captivated me as soon as I saw it.
