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| - Elise and Enric met by chance during their families vacation in Greece. It was - they'd both readily agree - love at first sight. Despite their different heritages, they managed to get along well enough in the little, somewhat broken English they knew, and hung to the similarities of their mother tongues to decipher the rest of each other's sentences. They shocked everyone when they eloped, barely a week after having met each other, and got married in a small church on the island of Crete. The decision to move to England had been almost immediate, born more out of the fact that English was the one language they had in common, more than any other realistic expectations.
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| - Elise and Enric met by chance during their families vacation in Greece. It was - they'd both readily agree - love at first sight. Despite their different heritages, they managed to get along well enough in the little, somewhat broken English they knew, and hung to the similarities of their mother tongues to decipher the rest of each other's sentences. They shocked everyone when they eloped, barely a week after having met each other, and got married in a small church on the island of Crete. The decision to move to England had been almost immediate, born more out of the fact that English was the one language they had in common, more than any other realistic expectations. They were only children themselves, but have always dreamed of having a large family, and they set out to meet that goal from their first year of marriage. Material difficulties, trouble properly settling in in such a foul temperate after coming from sunny places, made them consider more seriously the birth of their next children. They knew they wanted many, but they also wanted to have with what to feed and clothe them, so longer pauses were made between them. An unexpected inheritance on the death of an uncle on the part of Enric's meant that their material woes at least had been solved, and after over a decade of staying in Britain, they had both decided they had settled in more than nicely, and their last four children were born much closer apart. The seventh and last child of the Del Bosques, Francis Alonso Del Bosque grew up as the overprotected, over pampered, overindulged baby of the family. It definitely helped that he had a sweet, accommodating nature from the start, and a natural inclination to being quite helpless, traits that only got worse as no one in the family had the heart to try and toughen him up. He had always had someone to take care of him and direct him down an appropriate path in life, and Paco had been more than happy to follow those instructions as it saved time from doubting his own decisions. Always referred to as 'Paco' he grew up thinking that was his actual name for a very long time, and he prefers it to his full first name, which is 'Francis'.
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