Both of his parents were deported to Mexico in 1937, and he went with them.

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The undisputed centre of his over-protective parents' attention (when he went up to Oxford, his mother went to live with him), he was never really able to separate himself from them, and his personality always retained a childlike quality which made it hard for him to form adult relationships, especially with women.

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