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Not everybody loves their children. If that was a fact, all the children would be happy and they would make happy adults. Instead, we have lots of miserable children that later became miserable adults. This is a fact. We cannot change that.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
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