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Then a little voice in him said, Let go, let go, let go

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.
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Nothing is ever certain.
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