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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.
-Alice Sebold
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If I Shut My Eyes, I Believed,
Alice Sebold
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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