Deane Hinton is an interesting man. Before he replaced Robert White in San Salvador he had served in Europe, South America, and Africa. He had been married twice, once to an American, who bore him five children before their divorce, and once to a Chilean, who had died not long before, leaving him the stepfather of her five children by an earlier marriage. At the time I met him he had just announced his engagement to a Salvadoran named Patricia de Lopez. Someone who is about to marry a third time, who thinks of himself as the father of ten, and who has spent much of his career in chancey posts - Mombasa, Kinasha, Santiago, San Salvador - is apt to be someone who believes in the possible.
- Joan Didion, Salvador, p.398 in We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
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