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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
Alice Sebold
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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Wisconsin
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I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's like walking down the street - what you leave behind is still there, even if you never go back and revisit it.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.
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Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.
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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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