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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Rescued
Believed
Longer
Talk
Anything
Never

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