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‘The Kite Runner’ Pulls at the Heart at the Kennedy Center
By Hailey Wharram White paper kites pepper an azure Kabul skyline as Amir (Ramzi Khalaf) delivers the searing opening line of “The Kite Runner”: “I became what I am today at the age of 12.” The lines that follow pack a similar gut-punch, foreshadowing the …