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The Guardian
11.05.12

Forgotten children of Spain's civil war reunite 75 years after exile
Basques who fled from Franco's coup recall stormy journey to Britain and the loneliness of life cut off from their Spanish roots

"I am of that Spanish generation that never was," he says, "the Spain that never flowered because it was cut off. Life has been very interesting, but I still have within me a sadness, a loneliness. In essence, I don't belong."

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