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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Never
Sell
Sells
Land
Gone
Left
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