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He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Told
Special
Understand
Something
Would
Horrible
Treated
Later
Beginning

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