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I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's like walking down the street - what you leave behind is still there, even if you never go back and revisit it.

Alice Sebold

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Back
Walking
Hard
Streets
Slash
Even
Behinds
Revisit
Kind
Behind
Posterity
Never
Leave
Burn
Like
Stills
Drive
Also
Street
Still
Exist

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