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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Destiny
Never
Dreams
Knew
True
Dream
Come
Sometimes
Inspiring
Even

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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.
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I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
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Like snowflakes,' Franny said,'none of them the same and yet each one, from where we stand, exactly like the one before
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Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
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Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?
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