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When illness enters a home, not only does it take hold of a body. It also weaves a dark web between hearts, a web where hope is trapped.

Muriel Barbery

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Muriel Barbery
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 28
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Anfa
Doe
Enters
Home
Trapped
Body
Illness
Take
Hearts
Heart
Hold
Dark
Hope
Also
Weaves

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