A life in Colombia
Bogota
A really small thing
The boy had one dream and one plan and three days after his twentieth birthday, he decided it was time to act. He said goodbye to his mother. She cried. He said goodbye to his girlfriend. She cried too, although a little less than his mother because she, at least, expected to see him again. […]
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At that time Bogotá was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniac rain had been falling since the beginning of the sixteenth century... In the streetcars and public urinals there was a melancholy sign. "If you don't fear God, fear syphilis." Gabriel García Márquez
Ten facts that prove Colombia is fictional
My name is Victoria and I have spent the past six years, two months and twenty-four days writing almost 250 stories that have attempted to tell the truth about a country called Colombia, and every single one of them has failed. That’s because the more truthfully a writer writes about Colombia, the more fiction he or […]
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