Children play in an irrigation canal, the local swimming hole that runs though Aracataca, the hometown of the late Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez along Colombia's Caribbean coast during the Holy Week holiday on Friday, April 18, 2014. Although the author evoked his homeland's beauty in his novels and visited frequently, he never again resided there permanently, instead spending his time in Europe and Mexico City, where his cremated remains will be displayed at a memorial service Monday. Garcia Marquez died on Thursday in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
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