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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.

Isabel Allende

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