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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
Moment
Woman
Moments
Two
Children
Clarity
Things
Lived
Life
Worst
Child

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I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
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