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The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

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Tony Kushner
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 16
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New York City
Anthony Robert Kushner
Anthony R. Kushner
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