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ustralia, never had a chance to tell him of our plans. Proffey, as I used to call my friend Benjamin “Bebito” Balbuena, often talked about premonition, and on that occasion, he stood in front of our Class of ´84, looking distant, as if he could see into the future. Peta Jurcevic and I were as bewildered as the rest of our high school friends who were paying little attention to him. On the way out I told her something that I will regret for the rest of my life: “If I could, I would kill him right now!” Not long after Proffey and I left the venue together, he was shot dead in a quiet roadside café in the wee hours of
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