Curro Romero made it to age 66.

Don't forget the great uncle of the Ordonez brothers was Luis Miguel Dominguin and the great grandfather was Cayetano "Nino de la Palma" Ordonez, who Hemingway wrote about in Death in the Afternoon and as Pedro Romero in The Sun Also Rises.

I came across an interesting article in an old issue of Sports Illustrated. It was about an American College student who had a chance encounter with the elder Ordonez while an exchange student in Madrid.

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