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What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
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Nothing
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