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You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

Khaled Hosseini

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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Writer
Cabool
Doe
Doctors
Without
Patient
Like
Source
Sensed
Hurt
Vague
Pain
Hurts
Felt
Doctor
Tell
Absence
Cannot
Presence

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