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By A. Livezey - September 22, 2003

An imminent era of lovesickness persuades the course of Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza's love affair; it is this pending ailment - as Gabriel Garcia Marquez' title Love in the Time of Cholera suggests - that fuels the lovers' final movement away from "the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion," (345) and "straight to the heart…

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