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recaptured in 1962. After her release, Magro started to work in support of political prisoners. Despite having engineering qualifications, she found it very difficult to get work because of her communist connections. She ended up doing "a little bit of everything" in order to survive. She had been placed on parole for three years and was not permitted to leave Lisbon. By the time of her release her husband had again been detained. He would not leave prison until the
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