A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under …

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. ✨ Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.18, Penguin UK
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