"The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
~ Gabriel García Márquez ~












Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

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