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How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Much
Love
Woke
Daily
Secret
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Someone
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I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.
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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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I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.
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And my sister, my Lindsey, left me in her memories, where I was meant to be.
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Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
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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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I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.
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The moon is whole all the time, but we can’t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest is hiding just out of view, but there’s only one moon, so we follow it in the sky. We plan our lives based on its rhythms and tides.
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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun it cannot be contained.
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Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.
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but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.
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