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For Juanba Berasategi
(1951-2017)
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Pioneer in Basque animation,
teacher and friend.
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THE DITCH
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She's 80 years old
and her face is lined with wrinkles.
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Euxebi has not had
an easy life.
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For cruel paradox of life...
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just as she embraced life,
her father met his death.
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Even at five or six,
she seemed a bright little girl.
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She often used to ask her mother:
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Mother, where is Father?
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All the others have a father,
but I don't.
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All that I have is a photograph.
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She cried so hard at school!
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Her old schoolteacher
was so mean.
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From today on,
you will wear the ring of punishment.
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The viper stays close
to its own kind.
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The little girl turned into a woman,
and although she often asked
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the reply was always
silent tears.
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She heard talk about dates,
places, names...
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with which the ghosts of her childhood
took shape.
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"The day Franco's soldiers entered...
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in the ditch on the way out of town...
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at daybreak,
when there were no witnesses..."
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They were painful splinters
that dug into her brain.
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It was hard to know
where her father lay.
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What could Euxebi do
but to go out and look for him?
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If the wind began to gently blow
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the poplar leaves
shook violently.
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Just searching
helped to relieve her curiosity.
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A tree stirred up
something deep inside her.
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When she was in that place,
her heart beat fast
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in a way that she only felt there.
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A pile of bones as witness
in a history full of lies,
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oblivion was finally coming to an end.
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Euxebi thought this resting place
would do
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and she left a photograph
at her father's grave.
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Buried with a shovel,
unearthed with a brush...
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bones are not merely bones
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they reflect the ideas
of those murdered
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and the feelings
of those who mourn them.
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Eighty years after the war,
with more than 114,000 missing people,
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Spain continues to
be one of the countries
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with the largest number of victims
of enforced disappearances
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whose remains have not been
recovered or identified.
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Traces of Franco are still deep,
also in the Basque Country.