‘The Man Who Could Move Clouds’ is a memoir full of magic

Ingrid Rojas Contreras tells the story of her grandfather Rafael Contreras Alfonso, a Colombian healer with otherworldly gifts. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2022-08-11 14:57:38 UTC ]
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Paul Reubens was writing a memoir that his team is 'hoping' to publish posthumously

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