261:. Donovan went back home in 1964, and a couple of months later he escaped his parents’ home through a window, leaving a letter to his mother, which read: "Don't cry mama, I need to find myself..." He soon became a runaway in Buenos Aires during summer, with only his maternal grandmother, Celia Lertora de Peralta Ramos — whom Martin called "Mamama" — as his accomplice. Those summer months in Buenos Aires while the police was searching all over for him became a fundamental period in his life.
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