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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Hey
Ocean
Eyes
Eye
Father

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