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Handsomest Drowned Man
Have you ever wanted to be unique in such a way where you just stand out to the public? Such as either having an enormous wing or even just being really enormous. In the stories, The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings and The Handsomest Drowned Man were both written by the same author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both of the stories have a similar topic to it, such as being washed up on shore and also having both a unique factor to the main characters. The unique factor in the story The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, was pretty much can be explained from the title, it's about a man who was washed up shore with tons of crabs around him. As the town people were cleaning up the town from the infested dead crab, they stumbled across a roughly over

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