''The people of Aracataca, colloquially known as Cataqueros, generally wake up at the break of dawn to enjoy the coolness of the departing night. School starts at six thirty, so that mothers, whose beautifully blended blood came from all over the world, don’t need an umbrella to protect them from the burning sun while they walk to the market or wash their clothes in the river about a mile downstream from the giant white rocks appearing dinosaur eggs to little Gabriel’s eyes.''

''In Magical Realism’s heartland, I saw a glimpse Colombia's mysterious history and Gabo’s necessity of creating Macondo out of it. The literature of Garcia Marquez had been responsible for creating a better understanding between the mestizo cultures of Latin America and millions of readers from all over the world.'' 

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An early morning in April, while the Caribbean air was still fresh, I was on my way to catch the bus to Aracataca, a sleepy little town at about an hour’s drive from the sea, squashed between mountains and the swamp. The tropical heat that challenges the mind’s jurisdiction over the senses converting the people around the equator into a slow paced and joyful society, would incite my inevitable daily quest for shade as soon as the merciless sun would rise. 

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