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Please don't let Daddy die Susie, he whispered. I need him.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Need
Needs
Susie
Whispered
Daddy
Please
Dies

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