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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Sometimes
Feels
Thing
Wrong
Done
Right

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