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She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Thought
Collisions
Sometimes
Fracture
Collision
Slight
Earlier
Surface
Fractures
Deep
Tremor
Powerful
Stutter

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