and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been lov…

Khaled Hosseini
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and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2009). A Thousand Splendid Suns, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing
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and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2009). A Thousand Splendid Suns, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

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