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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
States
Adjusts
Condition
Quickly
Conditions
State
War

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