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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Fortune
Sorrow
Forever
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