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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Inside
Memories
Animal
Fear
Crouching
Away
Blows
Music
Blow
Years
Carry
Wind

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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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