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Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?
Alice Sebold
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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Wisconsin
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I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.
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Stones and bones snow and frost seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?
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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
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All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.
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I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.
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But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out
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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.
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She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.
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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go
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