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Letter from Martha Gelhorn after my 21st birthday party
When courting my (future) wife, I gave her six year old sister a Paddington Bear. This is the thank you letter I received
"Latin America is the insane asylum of Europe. Maybe, originally, it was thought that Latin America would be Europe's hospital, or Europe's grain bin. But now it's the insane asylum. A savage, impoverished, violent insane asylum, where, despite its chaos and corruption, if you open your eyes wide you can see the shadow of the Louvre."
Roberto Bolano, writer