El ex Presidente y Mariscal Francisco Solano López, a pesar de contar con una importante cantidad de detractores y de un número aún mayor de personas que saben poco o nada sobre él, sin dudas ocupa un lugar privilegiado en la opinión pública.

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There was a girl in my middle school no one really liked. She told everyone her uncle had sexually abused her and that she had an older boyfriend who was a freshman at Yale, and yes, they did more than kiss. People said terrible things about her — that she was lying about her uncle, that she just…

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