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Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
People
Head
Forever
Forget
Whether
Everyone
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Wanted
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...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.
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Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
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