More than a Christmas present.

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Today, at lunch, I received a message from Carolina. She told me that she had to write a short story and that it was her final work in Literature as she had saved money and got a sholarship to study Literature in Madrid (Spain). She had sent it to me and I told her that I´d read it as soon as I had some time. When Dixie came to get apricots, I was reading Carolina´s very good short story about the time of Pinochet in Chile. I was crying also, because the story was good and moving and because my granddaughter had written it. I confess that I am afraid that too many young people have forgotten all the terrible things that happened during Pinochet´s time. They weren´t born yet and reading and studying History is a lost art. Yet she had managed to capture the terror of so many families during that time. I hope more young people ask and keep in their memory that awful time so that it doesn´t happen again. Many people from Venezuela have come to my country, fleeing from Maduro´s government. But I remember the time before Chavez and Maduro, when Venezuela received so many Chilean people and gave them refuge. Carolina´s story has reminded of things we should never forget.