Also published in English in the Paris Review (no. 166, 2003). In November 2000, Paternostro landed in Barranquilla from New York. Her mission was not to write the counterpart of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs, but to reconstruct Gabriel García Márquez's life by a rich American magazine, that probably didn't know that Gabriel García Márquez himself was writing his memoirs. This extensive article narrates the story and findings of Paternostro while in Colombia.