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Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Every
Forgets
Time
Disappears
Disappear
Wrote
Brother
Forget
Else
Someone

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I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.
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I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
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The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.
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It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.
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I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.
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...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.
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I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.
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