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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.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
World
Anonymity
Passed
Liked
Looked
Knew
Imagine
Also
Immaculate
Life
Anonymous

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