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Acknowledgments Iwant to thank Juan Cruz and Sealtiel Alatriste for conspiring to induce me to write these memoirs, and Carmen Lacambra as well. To Saúl Sosnowski, associate provost for international affairs, and a professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department, at the University of Maryland, College Park, for his support. To Edmundo Jarquín, for the time he took to revise the rough draft and for his valuable annotations. To the historian Roberto Cajina and to my assistant Betty de Solís, for their long-distance support. And to Dora María Téllez, to Claudia Miranda, and to my son Sergio, for sharing their memories with me. ...

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