Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery

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  This is The Guardian.

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  The Guardian Archive Long Read.

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  Hi, my name is Giles Tremlett.

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  I'm the author of "Three Abandoned Children, Two Missing Parents and a 40-Year Mystery,"

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  published in March 2023. So to sum up, this story is about three children,

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  three siblings, two boys and a girl, age two, four and five,

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  who were abandoned at a railway station in Barcelona in 1984. And it's about their attempts,

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  many decades later, to discover who their parents were and why on earth they were abandoned.

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  So I was first drawn to this story because it's such a bizarre tale.

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  Why didn't these children know who they were?

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  They didn't even know their surnames.

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  They didn't know where they lived.

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  They'd never been to school.

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  Why did no one come looking for them?

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  Three siblings, but no parents, no family, no teachers.

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  Nobody came looking for them.

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  And finally, because, well, effectively, they're three orphans.

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  And we've always been interested in orphans, whether it's Harry Potter or Mowgli or whoever else.

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  So in 2026, we're three years on.

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  I'm still very much in contact with Elvira Moral,

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