Heroes: Ernest Hemingway

As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Ernest Hemingway

quoted in Portrait of Hemingway by Lillian Ross

This is a bit of a teaser – who would be Hemingway’s heroes? I have cheekily suggested Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara as being a suitably swashbuckling character who shared Hemingway’s first name. Possibly, possibly….

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