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From Shin to MexicoIN 1960, after I'd been a Mexican citizen for ten years, Iapplied for a visa at the Spanish consulate in Paris and surprisingly,despite a twenty-four-year exile, had no trouble gettingit. <strong>My</strong> sister Conchita came to Port Bou to pick me up sothat someone would be there to raise the alarm in the event ofany last-minute catastrophes. Nothing happened, of course, andsuddenly there I was, back in Spain. A few months afterward,two plainclothes policemen showed up and asked very politelyabout my income; but nothing came of this, either. It's impossibleto describe my emotions as I traveled from Barcelona toSaragossa and then back to Madrid, revisiting all the scenes ofmy childhood; suffice it to say that I wept as I walked downcertain streets, just as I'd done ten years before when I returnedto Paris.This first return trip lasted only a few weeks, but during thattime Francisco Rabal (from Nazarzn) introduced me to an extraotdinaryMexican named Gustavo Alatriste, who was to become both

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