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She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Body
Seemed
Even
Smile
Way
Outside
Carriage
Movement
Carriages
Eyes
Deliberate
Eye
Smallest
House
Dancer
Didn
Rarely

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