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I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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