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Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
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- Jose Saramago
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- Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Jose Saramago: recorded author lifetime 1922–2010. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37060 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is jose-saramago; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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