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It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

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Laura Esquivel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 30
Educator
Novelist
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
Mexico City
Mexico
Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés
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