“No one writes to the colonel” by Gabriel García Márquez

“The only thing that comes for sure is death”
-Gabriel García Márquez, No one writes to the colonel

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Fifteen years have passed since the Thousand days war ended in Columbia, and the colonel is still waiting for his letter of pension to arrive which was promised after the war.
Struck in poverty, the old man lives with his wife, the couple had lost their only son, lives off by selling little objects around the house and now they are just left with an old clock and their son’s rooster.