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Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

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Cassandra Clare
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 31
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Teheran
Judith Rumelt
Humans
Charming
Something
Precious
Stranger
Smile
Packets
Stupid
Safeguarded
Lives
Powder
Away
Threw
Money
Barely

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