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I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.

Alice Hoffman

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