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People hide their truest nature. I understood that I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
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New York City
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