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If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Believed
Present
Eyes
Eye
Whole
Make
Would
Shut
Time
Disappear

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