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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.

Isabel Allende

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