Word: trigo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...None Other ..." Soon afterward, a poor worker, José Trigo Villar, and his wife Concepción came to the home to adopt a child. They chose blue-eyed, blonde-curled Maria. "You are taking away a real marquesita" said one of the nurses at the home. José Trigo remembered the remark often during the next quarter-century when, hounded by poverty and civil war, he tramped up & down Spain in search of a living...
...weeks later, Faustino returned to the Trigo flat with a briefcase full of documents. "Right here," he said, "I have proof that you are none other than the illegitimate daughter of the late Dona Maria del Rosario Heredia de Fonte Uberta, Marquesa de Escalona del Valle, Grandee of Spain and lady-in-waiting to Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain. Here," he added, "is a copy of your mother's last will leaving you all her titles, privileges and estates...
Last week would-be Lawyer Faustino was in jail. Would-be Marchioness Carmen Trigo had a new job scrubbing floors in a Valencia hospital. She had sold all her fine clothes, jewels and furniture to pay her debts, but she still owed thousands of pesetas. Street urchins mocked, "Yah, yah. Marquesita," as she trudged to work each morning. But the kind nuns in the hospital gave Carmen a brief smile as she pushed her rag over the tile floor...