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I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Bones
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Forever
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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