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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Away
Packing
Night
Epiphany
Things
Slipping
Wondered
Gathering
Forgiveness
Middle
Unannounced
Pain
Fanfare

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