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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Might
Granted
Careful
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Heaven

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