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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Lines
Murky
Living
Blurred
Father
Watched
Truth
Seemed
School
Line
Different
Brother
Dead
Learned

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