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I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Alone
Kiss
Morning
Chosen
Free
Somehow
Girl
Kissing
Around
Spent
Wanted
Air
Susie
Time
Quiet
Mornings
Cold
Salmon

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