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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Find
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Would
Susie
Love
Son
Inside
Living
Young
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