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It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Wanted
Anyway
Years
Weird
Life
Nine
Succeed
Failure
Realize
Slowly
Building
Midst
Realizing
Thirty

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