Editing Eva Perón (section)

===Junín===
Before abandoning Juana Ibarguren, Juan Duarte had been her sole means of support. Biographer John Barnes writes that, after this abandonment, all Duarte left to the family was a document declaring that the children were his, thus enabling them to use the Duarte surname.<ref name="Barnes">{{harvp|Barnes|1978}}.</ref>{{page needed|date=October 2015}} Soon after, Juana moved her children to a one-room apartment in Junín. To pay the rent on their single-roomed home, mother and daughters took up jobs as cooks in the houses of the local [[estancia]]s.

Eventually, owing to Eva's older brother's financial help, the family moved into a bigger house, which they later transformed into a boarding house.<ref name="Borroni, Otelo 1970"/>{{page needed|date=October 2015}} During this time, young Eva often participated in school plays and concerts. One of her favorite pastimes was the cinema. Though Eva's mother wanted to marry her off to one of the local bachelors, Eva dreamed of becoming a famous actress.<ref name="Barnes"/>{{page needed|date=October 2015}} Eva's love for acting was reinforced in October 1933, when she played a small role in a school play called ''Arriba Estudiantes'' (Students Arise), which Barnes describes as "an emotional, patriotic, flag-waving melodrama".<ref name="Barnes"/>{{page needed|date=October 2015}} After the play, Eva was determined to become an actress.<ref name="Barnes"/>{{page needed|date=October 2015}}