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Alice Sebold

This person is a college freshman when she is attacked and raped in a park.

Alice's Mother

This person has anxiety attacks which are called "flaps" by the family.

Bud Sebold

This person is a professor and not a highly-affectionate man.

Lila

This person lives down the hall from the main character at Haven Hall.

Mary Alice

This person is a friend of the main character who arrives at the hospital and remains with her as the doctor performs the examination, gathers evidence, and stitches her wounds.

Ken Childs

This person is a boy who had a crush on the main character and who had spent the evening taking her picture on the night of the rape.

Father Breuninger

This person is an amiable man who has around him a devoted congregation.

Tess Gallagher

This person is a literature teacher at Syracuse.

Gregory Madison

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