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far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

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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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