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I needed the money
and it was the perfect summer job.
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That was where I met Miralles.
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At the Estrella de Mar.
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He was a regular.
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He turned up every year
in early August in his motor home.
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The day he arrived he'd put on
shorts and sandals
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and keep them on
until the day he had to leave.
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His body was a map of scars.
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At night
he'd get drunk in the bar
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and I'd take him back.
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One day he told me the story
of his life through his scars.
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The first was on his hand.
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He'd got it working
with his father,
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who, he said,
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was very special.
When Franco led the coup,
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his father went straight out to
enlist but they said he was too old.
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Seeing how upset he was,
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his son, who knew nothing
about politics, enlisted
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in secret.
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Then he dropped
his shorts and showed me
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his backside.
1:17:16
Anti-tank shrapnel, he told me.
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He spent a month
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arse-up in the hospital,
and lost his virginity
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to an English girl, who finally
left him to go back to
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her English husband.
1:17:29
"I can't show you
that scar,"he said.
1:17:32
Then he joined
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the 1st Mixed Brigade under
Enrique Líster. A good place,
1:17:38
he said, to think yourself
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a hero.
Next came the scars won
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at different battles...
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Belchite,
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Teruel,
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Tarragona.
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The front fell
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and he withdrew to Catalonia,
still under Líster.
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The men said they'd resist, but they
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ran away, the Fascists
close on their heels.