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In a novel titled for this concept, workers unearth a corpse with two-century-old copper hair inside the Convent of Saint Clara. In that novel titled for this concept, the Marquis de Casualdero abandons Sierva Maria, who contracts rabies but falls for Cayetano de Laura. A character in a novel whose title starts with this concept seduces America Vicuna, who later commits suicide. This concept opens the title of a novel in which a character processes the death of the (*) chess player Jeremiah before failing to rescue a parrot from a tree. This (10[1])concept is paired with “Other Demons” in the title of a (10[1])1994 novel by a Colombian author. While aboard the New Fidelity, a character in a novel titled for this concept raises a yellow flag to signal a quarantine. Florentino (10[2])Ariza pursues Fermina Daza in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel titled, for 10 points, what concept in the Time of Cholera? ■END■

ANSWER: love [or Of Love and Other Demons; or Love in the Time of Cholera; or amor]
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