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The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Damage
Wounds
Reopen
Ignorant
Fester
Easily
Thoughtless
Change
Remark
Time
Remarks
Wound
Layers

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