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Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Accident
Kiss
Accidents
Kissing
Beautiful
Like
Gasoline
Rainbow

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