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“... cause, however great the sacrifice I will never leave your side until I die’? Or did she say, as Tomás EloyMartínez suggested in his The Perón Novel (1985) and suggests again in his Santa Evita (published in Spanish in 1995): ‘Thanks for existing’? The fact that there is a current popular song of that title ...”

“... been written by Tim Rice. A newish monument to Evita has on it a sentence taken from a novel by Tomás EloyMartínez, supposedly her first words on meeting Perón: ‘Colonel, thank you for existing.’ When Eloy Martínez pointed out that the phrase was not historical, that ...”