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"In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off."
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Source: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
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