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How to Commit the Perfect Murder was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Game
Icicle
Games
Icicles
Heaven
Melts
Perfect
Chose
Away
Weapon
Always
Commit
Murder
Weapons

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