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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Punishment
Perhaps
Understand
Nothing
Heartless
Undone

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