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He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Life
Worst
Child
Moment
Woman
Moments
Two
Children
Clarity
Things
Lived

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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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