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All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

Mohsin Hamid

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Mohsin Hamid
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 23
Novelist
Writer
Migration
Refugee
Childhood
Everyone
Stories
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