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So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Hand
Bones
Patchwork
Hands
Obvious
Quilts
Someone
Places
Pillows
Anything
Quiet
Cakes
Like
Room
Underneath
Color
Pillow
Hold
Colors
Galore
Rooms
Cake
Quilt

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