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I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Hope
Hands
Coexist
Two
Palm
Live
Palms
World
Truths
Hell
Hand
Lying

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