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I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Except
Loved
Forever
Gone
Kodak
Moment
Marked
Moments
Burned
Way
Passed
Would
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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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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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I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
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