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Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
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Forcible
Thought
Rape
Truth
Inhabit
Everything
Intercourse
Mean
Dictionary
Always
Destroy
Since
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