“You do not belong to anywhere until you have a corpse in the ground…" writes Gabriel García Márquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude, explaining the relationship Colombians have with death. The emotional bond with beloved ones does not end with death but turns into a holy connection, part of one’s own identity.
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