"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.“


-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

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