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Stones and bones snow and frost seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses! His two little frogs of girls, that’s who. They know where they are, do you, do you?

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Girls
Beans
Missing
Paths
Path
Daddy
Assorted
Girl
Seeds
Twigs
Two
Snow
Misses
Littles
Bones
Kisses
Little
Kissing
Frogs
Stones
Frost

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