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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
Stop
Hardest
Child
Killing
Lives
Animals
Keep
Tried
Children
Realize
Time
Taking
Think
Realizing
Lesser
Thinking
Animal
Killed

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