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Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes: I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
         

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.


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