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Tiempo antes, en el 36, cuando la sublevación militar y la 'revolución' simultáneas del 18 de julio convirtieron los días y semanas siguientes en un absoluto caos aprovechado por ambos bandos (cada uno en los territorios bajo su dominio) para ajustar rápidas e irreversibles cuentas y matar a mansalva sin control alguno, le había tocado buscar, como la mayor de ocho hermanos en edades jóvenes e infantiles, al de diecisiete o dieciocho años que una noche no volvió a casa.
Some time before, in 1936, when the simultaneous military uprising and ‘revolution’ of July 18th transformed the days and weeks that followed into an absolute chaos of which both sides took full advantage (each in their respective territories) in order to carry out a rapid and irreversible settling of accounts and to kill whomever they chose, she, as the oldest of eight brothers and sisters, who ranged from adolescents to infants, had had to go in search of the seventeen— or eighteen-year-old brother who failed to return home one night.
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