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Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Loud
Felt
Three
Two
Children
Always
Like
Silently
Apologizing

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