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I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Away
Camera
Found
Bones
Moments
Cameras
Take
Using
Way
Image
Time
Hold
Stop
Rescued
Moment
Owned

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