My husband did join me eventually, but we divorced and I have since remarried. Carlos Reyes is from Chile and spent two years in concentration camps after Pinochet came to power in 1973. They came to my flat on the first day of the coup - they started arresting and killing people immediately. I was arrested eventually, taken to some place and beaten up immediately. Then I was taken to a secret camp and tortured.
Nobody can describe pain, nobody can describe torture.
The second stage was acceptance - acceptance that I would die, but with dignity. Without giving them names, and without leaving a stain on my name. I had seen it happen. I was moved again and the torture continued. Some was physical, some mental.