I am totally stunned to learn that Maryam Mirzakhani died today yesterday, aged 40, after a severe recurrence of the cancer she had been fighting for several years. I had planned to email her some wishes for a speedy recovery after learning about the relapse yesterday; I still can’t fully believe that she didn’t make it.
My first encounter with Maryam was in 2010, when I was giving some lectures at Stanford – one on Perelman’s proof of the Poincare conjecture, and another on random matrix theory. I remember a young woman sitting in the front who asked perceptive questions at the end of both talks; it was only afterwards that I learned that it was Mirzakhani. (I really wish I could remember exactly what the questions were, but I vaguely recall that she managed to put a nice dynamical systems interpretation on both of the topics of my talks.)
After she won the Fields medal in 2014 (as I posted about previously on this blog), we corresponded for a while. The Fields medal is of course one of the highest honours one can receive in mathematics, and it clearly advances one’s career enormously; but it also comes with a huge initial burst of publicity, a marked increase in the number of responsibilities to the field one is requested to take on, and a strong expectation to serve as a public role model for mathematicians. As the first female recipient of the medal, and also the first to come from Iran, Maryam was experiencing these pressures to a far greater extent than previous medallists, while also raising a small daughter and fighting off cancer. I gave her what advice I could on these matters (mostly that it was acceptable – and in fact necessary – to say “no” to the vast majority of requests one receives).
Given all this, it is remarkable how productive she still was mathematically in the last few years. Perhaps her greatest recent achievement has been her “magic wand” theorem with Alex Eskin, which is basically the analogue of the famous measure classification and orbit closure theorems of Marina Ratner, in the context of moduli spaces instead of unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces. (I discussed Ratner’s theorems in this previous post. By an unhappy coincidence, Ratner also passed away this month, aged 78.) Ratner’s theorems are fundamentally important to any problem to which a homogeneous dynamical system can be associated (for instance, a special case of that theorem shows up in my work with Ben Green and Tamar Ziegler on the inverse conjecture for the Gowers norms, and on linear equations in primes), as it gives a good description of the equidistribution of any orbit of that system (if it is unipotently generated); and it seems the Eskin-Mirzakhani result will play a similar role in problems associated instead to moduli spaces. The remarkable proof of this result – which now stands at over 200 pages, after three years of revision and updating – uses almost all of the latest techniques that had been developed for homogeneous dynamics, and ingeniously adapts them to the more difficult setting of moduli spaces, in a manner that had not been dreamed of being possible only a few years earlier.
Maryam was an amazing mathematician and also a wonderful and humble human being, who was at the peak of her powers. Today was a huge loss for Maryam’s family and friends, as well as for mathematics.
[EDIT, Jul 16: New York times obituary here.]
[EDIT, Jul 18: New Yorker memorial here.]
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15 July, 2017 at 10:27 am
The demon king
This is very sad news. Maryam and I had worked on very similar things throughout her career (her perhaps best-known result improves a result of mine), and she was a wonderful person. I first met her at Princeton when she was still a graduate student, and she gave perhaps the best talk I had ever seen a graduate student deliver. She will be very sorely missed.
20 July, 2017 at 3:21 pm
Terence Tao
I have reluctantly removed a number of comments on this blog (mainly in response to the parent of this comment) as per the blog rules that the discussion be “kept constructive, polite, and at least tangentially relevant to the topic at hand.” (Most of the deleted comments may be found through the wayback machine at this link.)
15 July, 2017 at 10:57 am
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15 July, 2017 at 11:31 am
Moe Bidgoli
I’m very sad about death of Prof. Maryam Mirzakhani(one of best Math genius of 21 century). In this time of loss and sadness, I wish cherished memories of her provide her family and friends with comfort and ease their sorrow.
With deepest sympathy,
~Moe Bidgoli/SVSU-CSIS Dept
15 July, 2017 at 11:50 am
Anonymous
I am just a math researcher who only knew her name as a first Iranian female to receive the Fields medal, and only saw her lecture on Youtube video. I did not know anything about her disease; I was very shocked to hear this news. I sincerely wish her family and all those who were close to her deep condolence and sympathy.
15 July, 2017 at 12:15 pm
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15 July, 2017 at 12:42 pm
Anonymous
“A student can see the beauty of mathematics if he/she is patient”
“یک دانشجو اگر صبر و پشتکار داشته باشد می تواند زیبایی ریاضیات را لمس کند”
A sentence from the great mathematician (the queen of the queen of science), Maryam Mirzakhani.
I read his valuable Persian book in number theory. Her style of book writing was excellent. We lost a valuable person.
15 July, 2017 at 1:47 pm
Jemas Kumar
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15 July, 2017 at 2:20 pm
Xinyi
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15 July, 2017 at 2:52 pm
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15 July, 2017 at 3:42 pm
galoisian
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15 July, 2017 at 5:24 pm
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15 July, 2017 at 5:29 pm
sdf
Her recursion formula which I still think of as “science fiction mathematics”, —is one of the most astonishing and bizarre and even beautiful things I’ve seen. She really is gone much too early, it’s clear I think that she had a lot of great mathematics yet to contribute. And of course it will be so difficult for her husband and young daughter. Requiescat in pace.
16 July, 2017 at 12:07 am
Anonymous
Could you possibly provide a link to the paper with that formula?
16 July, 2017 at 5:36 pm
The demon king
A survey can be found here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06880
15 July, 2017 at 8:32 pm
Stephanie
Terry, do you have any information about the role, if any, that religion played in maryam’s life? It is absent from all discussions of her, and I’m wondering if it ever played a role for her.
16 July, 2017 at 4:44 pm
The demon king
She was completely un-observant, as far as I could tell, and also a-political. The only way religion affected her life is that her daughter could not get Iranian citizenship because Maryam (her mother) and not her father was Iranian, and women are second-class citizens under the Iranian state religion.
17 July, 2017 at 2:59 pm
Anonymous
I don’t know why do you want to comment about everything even about things with minimal knowledge about them?! Yes, Iran like other countries has its own rules about citizenship, sure I don’t like some of them but It doesn’t mean women are second-class citizens in Iran!! Just keep in your mind that Prof. Mirzakhani was a member of Iranian society. They fundament the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET) for both genders and Prof. Mirzakhani attended to the NODET’s high school and won the gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad two times. She obtained her BSc in mathematics (1999) from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran as well. The country and society that more than 50% of universities students are female.
17 July, 2017 at 3:39 pm
The demon king
I heard the story directly from her. She was sad about this. She never said anything publicly because (a) she was not the sort of person who would and (b) she had family in the Islamic Republic, and she did not want repercussions. That does not contradict what you say – perhaps you might want to look the nationality law (you sound like you might be read Persian reasonably well)- perhaps Maryam was mistaken?
18 July, 2017 at 12:46 am
Anonymous
I think the New Yorker article (or maybe it was The Guardian) said something about this too. Iran’s government is discussing loosening its laws about travel/residence by non-Iranians who are married to Iranians, because of the trouble Mirzakhani’s husband and daughter had visiting Iran.
18 July, 2017 at 9:27 am
Anonymous
As I said each country such as Iran has own laws about citizenship and other things and many of us including me are not agree with them but it is totally different with in Iran just because of this kind of laws “women are second-class citizens”. For example, we can say in US women are second-class citizens too because of the gender gap in pay.
On the other hand, your comment shows how much Iranian citizenship was important for Prof. Mirzakhani and she tried to give it to her daughter as well. Why does she want her daughter has a citizenship of a country that women are second-class citizens?
18 July, 2017 at 10:01 am
Conan the Avenger
Well, to answer your whitewashing comments below, here are some links for your delectation:
http://www.dw.com/en/iranian-women-are-second-class-citizens/a-16817367
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kaveh-taheri/iranian-women-still-denie_b_9607430.html
http://www.iranchamber.com/society/articles/legal_status_iranian_women.php
So, apparently, others (especially Iranians) agree with The Demon King.
As for why Professor Mirzakhani would want citizenship for her daughter – maybe so she would not have problems visiting the grandparents? And maybe she (the late Professor Mirzakhani) a proud Persian (which is not the same as being proud of Iran’s current regime)?
18 July, 2017 at 11:26 am
Anonymous
Ok women are second-class citizens in Iran like women in the USA, here are some links for your delectation as well:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/samantha-paige-rosen/women-in-the-us-are-still-wage-gap_b_5018490.html
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/women-class-citizens
http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap/
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real-time/Carli-Lloyd-Women-feel-like-second-class-citizens.html
http://www.ips-dc.org/african-americans-still-treated-second-class-citizens-law/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/16/women-second-class-citizens-pregnancy-criminals
https://rewire.news/article/2015/08/13/women-still-treated-like-second-class-workers/
https://www.quora.com/Why-have-women-historically-been-treated-like-second-class-citizens
believe me googling of above links took 1min and apparently, others (especially Americans) agree with women are second-class citizens in the USA.
I hope both countries can overcome this problem, I am totally and proudly in women side.
19 July, 2017 at 1:45 am
Clarity
dear Gender-Gap Anonymous,
“Second-class citizenship” usually refers to a situation where the laws are different (and worse) for one group than another. Or that the laws are officially the same but unofficially are applied differently (and more negatively) to that group.
In countries whose national laws are partly derived from Islamic law, women are second-class citizens under that definition. If Professor Mirzakhani had been male, she would have been able to get a visa for her daughter to enter Iran (among many other improvements to her legal rights).
In the USA, to the extent that there is any legal difference between women and men, it is always IN FAVOR of women. There is no “gender gap” that comes from the law (such as Iran’s law that women inherit half as much as men). In fact it is illegal in the USA for an employer to pay women differently than men for the same work.
There is a gender gap in the sense that men’s, on average, earn more money than women. The gap is much smaller after accounting for some of women’s own career choices (or other things under their own personal control). As far as I know it is still under debate in the economics literature whether any remaining gaps in wages are the result of gender-dependent decisions by the employers. It is also not clear if the gap survives when taking into account medical insurance costs (paid by employers) and pensions, which do not work the same for men and women.
27 May, 2018 at 6:14 am
Anonymous
Maybe too late! But you have no idea about religion and its effect on Iranian nationality law. Many European countries did not recognize citizenship from mother side until 80’s. Connecting a citizenship rule to religion is highly unprofessional. Her religious observance is a personal matter but a very very close friend of her has said that she asked her husband to convert to Islam and this took him a year as he did not want to convert just for marrying her and eventually after he did, they got married. Of course, this has nothing to do with her contributions but talking without knowing much about her personal life and spreading misleading information is unethical.
15 July, 2017 at 10:41 pm
Anonymous
Iran has lost one of its best and brightest.
15 July, 2017 at 10:54 pm
aokareem
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15 July, 2017 at 11:48 pm
ek458
In life I observe a complex mechanism of statistical mechanics born, parameters authenticated with wave to defeat evil similarity and the reality in which every little detail has beautiful ratio randomness structure structures in a benign matter. People’s soul collectively speaks. This appears sensory harmonic mechanism also & dear Maryam has done beautiful work for this being. Her soul will live in many generations just like many other people that do we are. Many mathematicians must know that we see and hear and that our work matters greatly that we even think for the formation for our kind.
16 July, 2017 at 1:09 am
Bolin
What a sad news! The email which hasn’t been sent to her is still inmy draft box TAT
It’s hard to imagine how her daughter will grow up without her painting and “doughnut”…
16 July, 2017 at 2:54 am
Maths student
Dear Prof. Tao,
note that sadness may be transformed into action. If you can, help taking care of her poor daughter. Maybe she inherited her mother’s mathematical abilities.
16 July, 2017 at 4:46 pm
The demon king
Her poor daughter has a very good father (also a mathematician/computer scientist), so I don;t think she needs to be a ward of the mathematical community.
16 July, 2017 at 3:09 am
knightofmathematics
She leaves behind a shining example for women in Mathematics and Science in general; a true milestone in the history of Mathematics. My sincere condolences to her family and her friends.
16 July, 2017 at 4:10 am
Anon
Prof. Tao,
I’m a follower of your blog even though I’ve never understood most of the things as I’m not very good at mathematics. I’ve just scraped through my graduate mathematics courses. But nothing has reduced my interest and love towards this subject.
I’m shocked to know that Prof. Mirzakhani is no more. I hope her husband and her very young daughter find fortitude to overcome their sadness.
16 July, 2017 at 5:06 am
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16 July, 2017 at 5:39 am
milton
Es una noticia muy triste.
una perdida enorme para el mundo.
16 July, 2017 at 7:36 am
Vahan Stepanyan
I am so sorry to hear about professor Maryam’s untimely death. It is very sad for me to realize that some of us will never have chance to shorten the collaboration distance between us and her to 1. My deep condolences to her family.
Sincerely,
V. Stepanyan
NAS RA, MechIns
16 July, 2017 at 9:27 am
dendisuhubdy
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16 July, 2017 at 1:01 pm
Anon
Thank you for your words about Mirzakhani. While I never had the chance to meet her, news of her death left me in shock. It is hard to process how unfair it is. I had the sense from colleagues that she was a wonderful and humble human being, as you say, in addition to her incredible research talent. We lost one of the best of us, at such a young age. I have her family in my thoughts today, but it will be the mathematician in me that mourns.
16 July, 2017 at 2:04 pm
emmittsmith
World, opportunity missed.
16 July, 2017 at 4:19 pm
Phil Nguyen
Could somebody tell me the time of birth of Mrs Maryam Mirzakha ?
Best Regards .
Phil Nguyen
17 July, 2017 at 5:00 am
Kokou
RIP Maryam Mirzakhani!
Happy Birthday to you Prof Terry Tao
17 July, 2017 at 7:40 am
Sridhar
Very shocked sad to hear about passing away of Prof Mirzakhani
17 July, 2017 at 8:14 am
monodromie
Although it is possibly a bit misplaced to say at this point, her death gives another example of how conventional cancer treatment regimes fail patients, even young persons at the height of their mental and physical powers. While I am not in any way informed about the details of her disease and death (and the latter is the usual way conventional medicine disinforms the patients, by the so called medical secret) I think I am entitled to pose certain questions and I think the public has all rights to know the exact details, and I mean the painful details of overblown surgery and baseless ad hoc concepts with little, and if at all then ‘statistics based’ ‘success regime’. I think her death, i.e. the very unexpected and sudden death, which gave noone, including her, a chance to come to terms with her dying, can only be a wake up call for conventional medicine, i.e. in its ignorance to alternative regimes, I mention Asian/Chinese medicine and i.e. the ketogenic diet, a regime which deserves much more financial support than is given now. I am not only sad, I am angry, angry at the way her death is used by western media for their political propaganda wars wrt Iran (‘the hijab’), angry at the way her death is presented as a ‘higher force’ or a ‘will of god’. If it is not now the moment where patients and persons close to her other patients speak out, when is the right moment then?
For the record: I am not only a random person with an esoteric grudge on ‘medical science’, I exeperienced the arrogance and, frankly speaking, disinformation methods and misleading views of western medicine wrt ‘alternative, i.e. nutrition based ways’ of treatment for a long part of my life having a chronic and allegedly ‘incurable’ autoimmune disease wrt which I do not follow the conventional medication regime anymore (for many reasons which would be too complicated to describe here) since more than 12 years now. According to ‘general nonsense’ I should be dead since exacty 12 years. But here I am writing this, and I will survive another 20 years, I assure you, except when ‘medical science’ ‘gets me’ otherwise. I am linking below one or two links wrt ketogenic diet and individual, while closely related cases, where a refusal of treatment led to longterm survival in situation with very meagre prospects in terms on conventional ‘whisdom’.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662856/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4726921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215472/
17 July, 2017 at 9:21 am
monodromie
to explain my anger: in male dominated physics blogs one could read by now comments of the form ‘she was the weaker gender, and she could not overcome this’, something in that direction and one wonders: did career-centred patriarchic ‘research’ fail her? People who care about their publication lists more than for the survival of their patients? Ketogenic diets and related make no good papers, it is considered as ‘not scientific enough’. From her slow and deep pace in mathematics one knew she always was opposed to superficial science ‘successes’. But did exactly these fail to save her? A superficial understanding of science?
18 July, 2017 at 4:39 pm
monodromie
the truth is that exactly her success in science did probably exclude the mere possibility of her not following the ‘accepted’ ways western science dealed with cancer, she would have risked her own scientific reputation. The mere wall of ignorance one hits here when one criticises disciplines of western ‘science’ and their effectiveness to deal with fundamental human conditions speaks volumes. Also of course, the arrogance of the healthy, nobody who never had a life threatening disease knows the ‘western scientific medicine’ from the inside. And cancer victims have no proper voices in our society also, i.e. not non-white cancer victims. Mirzakhani’s death gives evidence to many blind spots in our societies, many failures and in the end the destructiveness and shallowness of patriarchic ‘reasoning’ in itself.
17 July, 2017 at 11:47 am
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17 July, 2017 at 4:26 pm
Gil Kalai
I share the feeling of sadness and loss which is shared by all commentators from the very first comment and my heart goes for Maryam’s family and friends. I was also very sad to hear about Marina Ratner and my heart goes for her family and friends too. I find the reference, discussion and links to Maryam’s and Marina’s work as giving a little sense of comfort and I dont see any problem with us sometimes see some matters differently. I even found demon king’s reference to his own work that was improved by one of Mizrakhani’s famous contributions as endearing. Certainly, both Maryam and Marina were eminent mathematicians. Unfortunately, I did not know personally these great mathematicians but all my dynamic colleagues that knew both very well were great admirers of their personalities as much as their mathematics.
17 July, 2017 at 4:29 pm
The demon king
Thank you, this is exactly in the right spirit, and I am sorry if my comments have proved contentious (they certainly were not meant to be).
18 July, 2017 at 12:52 am
Anonymous
I never had any contact with Maryam Mirzakhani but I studied undergraduate real analysis under Prof. Ratner at Berkeley. I’m sad to hear that she has passed, even though it’s less of a blow when the person has lived a full life and reached a reasonably advanced age. Mirzakhani’s death was shocking by comparison.
18 July, 2017 at 1:54 am
Harold Mortazavian
The world of mathematics and science mourns the passing of one of its greatest, Maryam Mirzakhani. This exceptional woman left us too early. Her untimely passing is an immense tragedy.
That chance and destiny should unite to take away from us this extraordinary woman of science and humanity at such an early age, confronts us all with a perplexing existential question that our feeble powers of reason fail to grasp. Destiny has formulated a problem for us that we must admit, we are unable to fully comprehend. We feel the tragedy of a great life cut short at its prime, a child left without a loving mother, a husband deprived of warmth and affection, students having lost their beloved professor, thousands among family, friends, and colleagues forever deprived of her presence, and the world of mathematics, science and culture having lost one of its treasures.
Maryam Mirzakhani was a mathematician of extraordinary ability. Her works were possessed of exceptional depth and great originality. She was and shall always remain to be a source of pride and honor for the world of science, especially for her compatriots all over the world. She traveled a long and arduous road to the heights of universal recognition. This great woman of science and humanity whom we mourn everywhere today, gave us so much of herself, with her unceasing strivings in pursuit of truth and beauty in the mathematical realm, with the purity of spirit that she brought to her worthy endeavors, with her remarkable sense of humility and with her humanity.
We owe this great woman, who is no longer with us, a debt of gratitude, for the intellectual treasures she left behind. Before such a great spirit one is seized by an overwhelming feeling of awe and reverence for the courage and dignity with which she faced death.
Like countless others, I am deeply saddened by her untimely passing. I offer my sincere condolences to her family.
Maryam Mirzakhani came to the end of her life, leaving behind monuments of thought and ingenuity, a loving family and many grieving hearts. She will always be remembered with love and with honor, and her legacy shall live on. She will have a permanent place in the history of mathematics.
18 July, 2017 at 4:58 am
Anonymous
It’s great loss for mathematics.
And I have a little request. May I reprint and translate the article on my wechat Public account(it’s non-profit)? Just in order to let the article is available in mainland China, as you know that WordPress is shielded in Mainland China.
[Yes, this is fine – see the end of https://terrytao.wordpress.com/about/ -T.]
18 July, 2017 at 12:49 pm
Anonymous
What a sad!Many great hosres fell down in the race. Perelman turn down maths when he was 40, Grothendieck as well.In the past,Riemann died when he was 39. Oop, human beings are very small to the universe. I admit that Western is better than China in science but the treatment in the cancer,China does not have opponent,China does not need any tablet of medicine, I bet 1000 year later more science never can prove and understand this. If all you understand this , you will know where Pro.Tao’s intelligence come from, he does not do maths with brain as the other mathematician.
18 July, 2017 at 6:41 pm
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19 July, 2017 at 12:42 pm
SH
https://www.facebook.com/SIGSatUCI/
Translation via google scholar:
Sharif University of Technology in Southern California (SUTA):
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Life of the Lady of the World of Mathematics, Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani
Time: Sunday, July 23, 2017 – 11am to 1am
Location: University of California at Irvine (UCI), Hall of Physical Science Speeches PSLH 100
Address: Physical Sciences Lecture Hall, Irvine, CA 92617
Phone: (949) 824-5128
speakers:
Cumrun Vafa
Curtis McMullen
Firooz Naderi
Ali Nayiri
Roia Bhashti
Mehdi Hatamian
Heghir Rahmanadad
Mahdi Yahyanejad
Hamid Hezari
And a group of friends and friends Maryam Mirzakhani.
Please contact as you can.
21 July, 2017 at 2:10 pm
SH
Looks like this event was cancelled, according to the video below.
21 July, 2017 at 2:33 am
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[…] Thank goodness for her having a different teacher in her second year! And the article goes on to describe how her high school principal encouraged her to pursue math competitions, even though the Iranian team had never had a girl on it. And here’s a short (<3 minute) video where she describes her work. She was clearly an amazing person and mathematician, and it’s so sad that she died so young. (Jeremy adds: more recollections of Mirzakhani here.) […]
21 July, 2017 at 1:45 pm
Anonymous
A message by Maryam’s father and husband at her funeral regarding her memorial. Skip to the other half for the English announcement.
1 January, 2018 at 10:26 am
j
I did not understand but a few words but his Persian is amazing.
22 July, 2017 at 1:48 am
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24 July, 2017 at 6:02 pm
scriberedefined
You write very well. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinions on a very memorable woman. Thanks! Looking forward to reading more! :)
28 July, 2017 at 6:12 am
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25 September, 2017 at 9:45 am
Hans
The fact is able people should not leave their home countries but should use those talents to improve their own country. Also achievements on home soil alone have nationalistic value. Chinese, Indians and Iranians leave their countries for white man countries and cringe with pleasure when the white man pats them on the back and tells them what smart boys they ate. Sorry I see a failure of patriotism and sel respect here.
26 September, 2017 at 11:35 am
No, "Hans"
Please take your profound ignorance, jingoism, and hatred somewhere else.
25 September, 2017 at 9:47 am
Hans
‘Ate’ is ‘are’. ‘Sel’ is self.
5 May, 2018 at 10:09 am
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