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With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

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Orhan Pamuk
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 7
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