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Manolette - A Bullfighter's Dream
His technique was fluid yet efficient, beautiful yet deadly. There were songs written about manolette. Towns erected statues of him. Even a popular liquor brand that changed its name to anis manolete. As a novice, teen age bull fighter his untraditional looks and gangly body had been the subject of merciless ridicule. The same critics that idolized him in 19 forty seven had been all but spitting on him a decade earlier. All that surface level disdain seemed to melt away the first time people saw manolette kill a toro. Never has there been such elegance and dignified grace in the history of bull fighting. Bravo, a brave bull. Nobody killed like mano
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