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For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
Novelist
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Arthur Sulzberger Golden
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