Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place wher…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
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but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

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