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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Blooms
Weed
Desert
Spring
Flower
Lives

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