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Guido.

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"-What does it mean to recover our identity? The journey of an entire country through the story of a Grandmother and her grandson." (I wrote this on August 5th, Calgary's Airport) I try to stay away the cynical quote which prays that the death of a person is a tragedy, but the death of thousands is just mere statistic. It is a true reaction of the human mind, otherwise it would be impossible to carry with the burden of the many atrocities committed by mankind in their history. But sometimes history works in the opposite way, and just a simple event may recover the lost sense of humanity within us. I am bored, waiting at the airport for the end of an endless layover. But while I browse in my phone the news, I read with great joy that in Buenos Aires (Argentina) Guido was finally found. That He was “recovered”. Guido is the 36-years-old grandson of Estela de Carlotto, who has been looking for him since her daughter was kidnapped and murdered...