… It's a story you make up when you are involved in something bigger than yourself and you don't want to risk your life or the lives of others."Ĭarmen and her sister are given a story to memorize – a new middle-class identity that explains their mother's new clothes and behaviour – and armed with strict instructions not to trust anybody, to begin their life in the resistance. "A façade is when you make up a story because it's dangerous to tell the truth. To suddenly have her mother, a hippie for as long as she could remember, dress in middle-class clothes and do things she didn't believe in meant something was up. Her mother, a revolutionary, had instilled her own values in her children. She describes life in Chile on their return in rich detail and with life experiences that include everything from Charlie's Angels to stories of torture.
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