sentences:  Fabián Dobles was born in San Antonio de Belén, but his father, a medical doctor who had trained in the United States, soon resettled the family in the rural town of Atenas, in the province of Alajuela.The father was a very strict and devout Catholic and had intended that his son Fabían prepare for the priesthood, but a series of incidents, which he would later fictionalize in his last novel, "Los años, pequeños días" ("Years Like Brief Days"), led Fabián to abandon that career path and to study law at the University of Costa Rica.At an early age, he saw some of his poetry published in Joaquín García Monge's influential literary magazine "Repertorio Americano" ("American Repertoire").