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“I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But I didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. I ran.”
— Khaled Hosseini, book The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner (2003), P. 391
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