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After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Eye
Lovers
Repulsion
Often
Reasons
Unsure
Facts
Remain
Fury
Reason
Telling
Awe
Hard
Friend
Admiration
Sometimes
Changed
Lover
Eyes
Twice
Anyone
Directly
Hurled

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