We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile …

Isabel Allende
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We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent. ✨ Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition, p.58, University of Texas Press
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We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent. ✨ Isabel Allende, John Rodden (2004). Conversations with Isabel Allende: Revised Edition, p.58, University of Texas Press

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