“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”

—  Gabriel García Márquez, book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

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Colombian writer 1927–2014

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