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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Suffering
Happiness
Learn
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World
Suffer
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