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Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

Sara Paretsky

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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
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Crime Writer
Novelist
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Iowa
Sarah Paretsky
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Sara N. Paretsky
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Kinder
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Kindness

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