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If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Black
Blue
Wished
Death
Watches
Trick
Better
Watch
Hadn
Come
Stay
Lesson
Even
Learned
Tricks
Way
Knew
Breathe
Bluer
Would
Seen
Sky
Upwards
Forever
Lessons
Rises

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