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The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her she had noted in her journal: booze affects material as it does people.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Black
Affects
Doe
Journal
People
Alcohol
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Blacker
Material
Noted
Materials
Cloth
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Booze
Making
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