Patronato: My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco’s Spain

Linda Pressly and

Esperanza Escribano,Barcelona

BBC Mariona as a young womanBBC

Marina Freixa always knew there was something dark and unspoken about her family.

Her mother had grown up under Spain’s decades-long dictatorship, which ended in 1975, but the details of her…

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