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If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.
Khaled Hosseini
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Khaled Hosseini
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: March 4
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She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on occasion, he would resolve with punches, slaps, kicks, and sometimes try to make amends for with polluted apologies, and sometimes not.
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