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Chapter 1
The novel opens on the day Dr. Juvenal Urbino discovers that his old friend Lorenzo Daza's son, Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, has died by suicide.
Chapter 2
The novel moves into extended flashback, tracing how Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza first fell in love as teenagers.
Chapter 3
Fermina returns from her long journey and sees Florentino in a market. In that moment, she realizes she does not love him the way she thought she did.
Chapter 4
The chapter covers the long middle of Fermina's marriage to Dr. Urbino.
Chapter 5
After Urbino's death and Fermina's furious rejection of Florentino at the funeral, this chapter follows what happens next.
Chapter 6
The novel's final chapter returns to the present and follows Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza as they begin a river journey together aboard a steamboat.
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