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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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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Snowflakes
Snowflake
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