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To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

Vikram Seth

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Vikram Seth
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 20
Librettist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Calcutta
Able
Love
Life
Wrenched
Away

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