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A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Suspicion
Intuition
Began
Powerful
Father
Mother
Singh
Salmon
Jack

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She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.
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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
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Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
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He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway
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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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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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