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He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Love
Hats
Anyway
Mouth
Mouths
Took
Came
Tell
Ends
Gently

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