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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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