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Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Story
Pain
Lost
Stories
Smallest
Time
Drop
Bones
Told
Bits

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