Del Boy never marries. He has had many girlfriends, a fact that is the subject of numerous sarcastic comments by Rodney. He finally meets his partner Raquel Turner (whom he calls his "significant other") in the 1988 special "Dates". Del's mother Joan dies on 12 March 1964, apparently after a long string of illnesses. His lazy father Reginald leaves three months later (on Del's 16th birthday), taking most of their money and even Del's birthday cake. This leaves the teenage Del as the family's sole breadwinner, looking after his grandfather and Rodney, his half-brother who was born around thirteen years after him
Raquel Liberman a historical account. Writer and poet Ilan Sheinfeld has also written an account of that time, "The Tale of a Ring". Humberto Costantini died before he could complete a fictionalized account, "Rapsodía de Raquel Liberman", which he had hoped would "justify [him] in the eyes of God". Carlos Luis Serrano wrote a play about her, "Raquel Liberman: una historia de Pichincha". Myrtha Shalom wrote the book "La Polaca". Argentine-born film-maker Gabriela Bohm has produced a 30-minute documentary about her, entitled "Raquel: a marked woman". In Argentina, as of June 2010, the Raquel Liberman award was created to honor those who