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Colombia: Memories of a Love Dashed by the Guerrillas

Written byEduardo Avila

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Posted 28 April 2008 15:47 GMT

Uhelmdn of Airsounds [es] remembers an episode in his hometown of Ciudad Bolívar, Colombia, where an encounter with a platonic love had to be forgotten as word that the guerrillas had arrived into the town spread like wildfire causing panic forcing everyone to flee home.

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