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As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Side
Sides
Life
Kiss
Kissing

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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.
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Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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In my 20s, I railed against anything 'spiritual', I thought it was all crap.
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I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either.
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He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
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As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.
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I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.
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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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You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
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Your first kiss is destiny knocking.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.
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She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.
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Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.
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