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But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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If thou art indeed my father, then hast thou stained thy sword in the life-blood of thy son. And thous didst it of thine obstinacy. For I sought to turn thee unto love, and I implored of thee thy name, for I thought to behold in thee the tokens recounted of my mother. But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting.
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Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.
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