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I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of thingsthat was why everything had to be perfect.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Love
Grandmother
Beginning
Afraid
Cold
Perfect
Understand
Everything
Things

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