It is hard to imagine why they chose that day, in the middle of winter, to pack, get on a train and cross Spain. It was on December 26, 1966 when the mother and her five children set sail for Gerona, 954 kilometers from their home, where the father had already found a job as a veterinarian. One of those children was Javier Cercas . After four years he left Ibahernando without knowing that with that town of Cáceres he left behind the closest thing to his homeland. They are going to do 53 years of that

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