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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Whole
World
Tilt
Butterflies
Betrayed
Dreaming
Butterfly
Sleep
Dream

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