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all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.

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Jose Saramago
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: November 16
Died: 2010
Died: June 18
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Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
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