Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
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(…) he had made the irrevocable decision to take his own life when he was sixty years old.
He had turned sixty, in fact, on the twenty-third of January of that year, and then he had set the date as the night before Pentecost, the most important holiday in a city consecrated to the cult of the Holy Spirit.

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