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My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Bones
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Names
Susie
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Salmon
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Murdered
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Fourteen
Fish
Fishes

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