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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

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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