She has read the book four times. "I think if anything, this story talks about humanity and the universality of humans and how there's goodness in people and you just have to get to know one another."

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And one of the reasons that's most responsible for that is that humans aren't dying at as young an age from infectious diseases as they did three or four hundred years ago.

最重要的一个原因就是,人们不会在年轻的时候死于传染性疾病,而这在三四百年前确实会发生

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