Miroslava(1925-1955)

Adopted daughter of a physician, she and her family were at one time interned in a concentration camp after they fled their native Czechoslovakia in 1939. They were Jewish, she was not. They sought refuge in the Scandinavian countries before emigrating to Mexico in 1941.

[explaining why American men are less romantic than Latin men] Women here give 50 per cent and they expect to take 50 per cent. In Mexico, the woman gives and takes, but doesn't bother about the percentage.