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I fell in love with you again While you were away - Jack Salmon

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Salmon
Jack
Fell
Away
Love

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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.
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Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.
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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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My name is Salmon, like the fish first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
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The shadow of years was not as big on his small body. He knew I was away . But when people left they always came back.
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When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.
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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.
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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go?
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