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There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.
Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
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- Alice Sebold
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- Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Alice Sebold: documented birth year 1963; activity date not established. Wikidata Q239934, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239934 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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