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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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