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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
Alice Sebold
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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.
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Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: She’s never coming home. A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.
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