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This series is based on real life stories
occurred in Chile during the civil-military dictatorship

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supported in the Rettig report, in judicial documents
and in the testimonies of relatives of Disappeared Detainees.

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THE SUSPENDED MOURNING

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My friend Max Santelices died
officially on February 18, 2007

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but he had died long before.

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Max really died the day
that his beloved wife,

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Reinalda del Carmen, disappeared
pregnant to never come back.

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Max\'s life was never the same
without Carmen, as he called her,

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I had never seen a man
so in love with his wife.

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Max started smoking, smoking
and smoking.

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Max searched throughout Chile,
he looked for her in prisons,

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he was present in each finding
of human remains,

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he looked for her in the street,
among the crowd, on television.

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Over the years, Max was afraid
to forget her face,

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so, constantly
I looked at her photos

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His wife was white, thin,
had deep clear eyes,

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black hair, very well
delineated eyebrows

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Reinalda was a beautiful woman.

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Over time I realized
that what Max

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was really looking for in the photos
wasn\'t Reinalda,

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were the traits of their child,

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that she was carrying
the moment of her detention.

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Max had convinced himself
that his child was born

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and, as in Argentina, the
military have given it up for adoption.

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Max did not show his grief
that afflicted his close ones,

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however, he could never feel again

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for another woman what he lived
next to the love of his life.

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Max died of cancer without knowing what
happened with Reinalda or with her child,

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but only months after his death,

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Jorgelino Vergara,
former agent of the DINA,

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would tell for the first time what
even having many cases with his partner

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and maybe, for Max,
the best thing was never to have heard it

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I do not know if his preference
know how Reinalda was hit

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and tortured with electricity
be pregnant,

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or know how it was killed
with a cyanide injection.

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But no,

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probably Max had had
preferred to know the truth

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Well, although painful,

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it would have finished with the anguish,
with the suspended mourning.

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Reinalda Pereira, 29 years old

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arrested and disappeared

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December 15, 1976

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In the case of Reinalda Pereira
there are no convicts.