marguerita father raised her almost as he would a boy he taught her to swim run and stick up for herself. was a communist worthy of the title he was proud of his party membership but when indiscriminate arrests swept the country in the late one nine hundred thirty s. he realized that storm clouds were gathering over him. in january one nine hundred thirty seven margarita's parents spent a long time in her father's study talking in whispers margarita was just eight years old at the time. that our mother entered the room children your father is leaving us yeah i said to my father communists don't behave like that. try to embrace me but i did my best to break loose from his grip and what he said i would understand and forgive him when i grew up he made an attempt to protect our family. filed a divorce suit and moved into a home town in less than a month and he was arrested on the street his formal divorce suit didn't help a few days after his arrest his apartment in the house on the embankment was searched his family was still there. i thought in my nightmares for a very long time after the