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Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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