"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Marquez.

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Entry 1 In LTC, Gabriel Marquez explores the world of a man who is desperately in love with another woman. Florentino Ariza is in love with Fermina. They once met when they were young and at first Fermina falls in love with him. However Fermina eventually marries the Doctor. For several years, Florentino drowns his sorrows of loosing his love be commiting adultery with many women. He even rights a book about all the people he …

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…believe this simple because the main reason for Dr. Urbino's death was the parrot. Even the prostitutes are referred to as "birds". Bird droppings occur when Florentino arrives for the first time to speak to Fermina, foreshadowing a failed marriage. In the end, Marquez says that dwelling on the past can't bring you to the present. Obsessive passion for a certain individual can be considered a disease. In Florentino's case there is almost no cure.