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My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Past
Back
Overwhelmed
Grandmother
Happenings
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Moved
Terrible

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