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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Things
Bones
Asked
Dead
Living
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