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

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Like
Bones
Safe
Forever
Tell
Would

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