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You changed the subject. From what? The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. You know. Know what? That I only have eyes for you.

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
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