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Chapter 4 Delicia After this single unfortunate night in La Palma, the adults developed an aversion for that house and the mosquitoes. The most common mosquito found in Cuba is the Aedes Aegypti. Before Carlos J. Finlay, this mosquito was making quite the dent on the Cuban population through the spread of the yellow fever. According to Cuban history, the guy created a vaccine to threat the virus. Yellow fever is no longer a problem for the Cubans. It might be a problem for outsiders who are not vaccinated, or who do not descend from someone who has resistance to...

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Introduction The House was first conceived on sunny afternoon in the pool of my house. At first, I was trying to do a horror book. After writing a couple of chapters, I realized that writing horror wasn’t my forte. This is not to say that there isn’t a scary element to the book. For me, the most frightening element is living in my house in Cuba. Most of my memories there are pretty terrible, with the blackouts, the flying roaches, the ghosts and we were robbed twice after my dad died. As far as the main setting, the book takes...

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