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What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Children
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Time
Taking
Think
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Lesser
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Animal
Killed
Stop
Hardest
Child
Killing
Lives
Animals
Keep
Tried

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