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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
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Firsts
Salmon
First
Murdered
Like
Fourteen
Fish
Fishes
Bones
Name
Names
Susie

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