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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Magazines
Promise
Hair
Black
Like
Shiny
Stared
Promises

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