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At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones I wish like broken glass they could court light....still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Trying
Girl
Court
Tips
Make
Place
Girls
Murdered
Like
Light
Air
Feathers
Stills
Broken
Base
Together
Hold
Glass
Still
Pieces
Firm
Back
Blood
Glasses
Live
Wish
Bones

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