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When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Girl
Owned
History
Appeared
Together
Lied
Persons
Stolen
Person
Friendship
Everything
Looked
Nothing
Therefore
Andres
Different
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Rewritten

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