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My name is Yariella Acevedo, and I am student of english in Costa Rica University. I 

made this blog for  one project from the course of Literature. Here you can find my 

analysis and my point of view about some poems and short  stories from different 

authors such as Haruki Murakami, Charles Bukowski, Oscar Wilde, and Marilyn 

Singer.

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