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The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. I think she listens, she said, too softly to be heard.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Thinking
Branches
Sun
Looked
Tree
Heard
Came
Ruth
Past
Listens
Think
Softly

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