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It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Nowhere
Desert
Anywhere
Wasn
Hope
Appeared
Going
Beside
Settle
Settling

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