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we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age: 87 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 6
Died: 2014
Died: April 17
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