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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Everybody
Water
Greeting
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Love
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