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I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Curious
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Science
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If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.
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Nothing is ever certain.
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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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