"My father didn't want me to work at the Maternity Home, but both my mother and I were very firm and we achieved it," explains Fina Flórez Basany. This vocational nurse was born at the Maternity Home in 1947, grew up there, and then worked there until she retired. "My mother was a resignation and they adopted her, but at 16, during the Civil War, she had to return to the Maternity Home. She didn't have a very happy childhood, and returning to the Maternity Home was like a small miracle. She learned a lot there. She was a very well-educated woman," says Flórez. It was also at the Maternity Home in Barcelona that Fina's mother met her husband, who was her caretaker. "Marriage emasculated her; she could no longer work," adds Flórez.