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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

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

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