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Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Grew
Almost
Damp
Bricks
Solid
Breathing
Heavy
Air

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