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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
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Joseph Anton
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Volatile
Unstable
Vulnerable
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