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Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Proportion
Medicine
Often
Given
Different
Thing
Proportions
Poison

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