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In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a bur… - Khaled Hosseini
" "In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could — a look, a whisper, a moan — to salvage from perishing to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.
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About Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini (born March 4, 1965) is a physician and author of the best selling novel, The Kite Runner.
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خالد حسینی
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