His father, who worked in the coal mines in Lebu, died four years later, so the family had to move to Concepcion. In spite of the bad economic situation, his mother, Celia Pizarro, managed to send her children to different schools. Gonzalo attended the strict boarding school “Internado Conciliar”, where he found a way to overcome the difficulties he had when reading aloud in class because of his stuttering. Nobody imagined that his game of word transfer and substitution would be a sign of the poetry in his life.