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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
Tahereh Mafi
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Tahereh Mafi
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: November 9
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