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What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant gone.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Lost
Wondered
Mean
Frozen
Rays
Bones
Lovely
Meant
Dead
Gone

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