The Head of Protocol at the Foreign Office confirmed this view, which means that, despite twelve years of service, Mrs Jimenez has never, legally, been a member of the mission.

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But at that time, at age twelve, it meant succeeding on behalf of my father and making sure the one-armed man never came back again.

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