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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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City of the Kings
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