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These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
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Madison
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