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Florentino Ariza
Love in the Time of Cholera
For those old school romantics, there’s no better match than Love in the Time of Cholera’s Florentino Ariza. Though he’s a touch intense for us, his undying love and dedication to his childhood sweetheart, that persists over fifty-one years through her marriage to another man and her moving to a far off land, is certainly something to marvel at, even as it is at time utterly mad. But hey, the dude ruminates mighty prettily on his love:
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
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