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For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Never
Lack
Would
Comfort
Time
Growing
Troubling
Think
Heaven
Couches
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Evil
Alienation
Felt
Inherently
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Shakes
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Milk

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