Wedding agreed to in May. There were many years of relationships and the end of the Civil War favored apparent normality. There were still fears and uncertainties, small cracks through which any new illusion could succumb to their own fears or the fears of others.
in Valencia, still with the sequel to "red zone" no one could be fully peaceful.
had to get and fill many "roles" of good conduct certificates, birth certificates, registration papers ...
He had it easy, was born in the city and belonged to a family of well-known discrete Christian customs.
What instead it was more difficult, immigrated as a child from a village in the English Channel and to the imminence of the wedding, my grandfather asked Max to travel to town to get some of those as complicated as necessary roles that only the priest or the mayor could validate.
Maximus returned to his hometown after many years and began the process in the Church and City Hall to obtain documents that would enable the wedding of Amparo. The people were wounded, the confrontation between brothers left traces of mistrust that is not camouflaged to look into the eyes, the victims of both sides shared blood and surnames from that time and for many years, settled hatred in their hearts.
Someone commented on the Civil Guard barracks, the "Valencia" had returned to town. Yeah, that bastard Communist during the war organized the social assistance in a neighborhood of the "red" eastern city. Quickly and without further explanation grandfather was jailed pending sentencing by Republican and subversive.
The wedding was suspended and they both moved to town to intercede for the release of his grandfather. Claimed that his work was humanitarian, that was not an active militant and affiliation to the base of the PSOE obtained to develop the industrial action which had always worked RENFE train driver.
Sometimes the enemies are more afraid of what they represent than for what they really are and represent maximum independence, autonomy, freedom, in a town stained with hatred, which will probably never forgave his departure, and now, someone from their "family" was commissioned to remedy.
Amparo A year later and Alfredo were married.
Max could not attend, died a few weeks of his detention in prison Villarrobledo ...
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